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“America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!”

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Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart, born on July 5, 1972, is an American writer known for his focus on immigration, cultural conflicts, and modern urban life, characterized by his humor and satire. more

“If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap”

“True freedom requires taking responsibility for your own life. That frightens the hell out of too many people. They prefer to have Big Brother holding a safety net for them, and they'll sell their own birthright and their children's as well to keep it.”

People Wells Children Bigs Responsibility Hell Brother Safety Sells Taking Responsibility Birthright True Freedom Safety Net

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.”

Men Asks Names Numbers Telephones Glamour

Author:Lilly Dache

“the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves”

Government Can Do

Book:Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology

Source: Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology

“it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.”

Mother Order Liberty Daughter Anarchist

Book:Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology

Source: Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology

“When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit”

Bits

Author:David Lloyd George

“Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.”

Ideas Facts Law Expression Statistics Newton Gravitation Newton's Laws

Book:Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

“Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.”

Ifs World May This World Birth Productions Premature

Book:Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

Source: Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

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