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“But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.”

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Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American writer known for his unique narrative style and profound insights into social issues. His works often blend historical, literary, and philosophical elements, exploring themes such as family, memory, and identity. more

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“The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.”

Thinking Whole Care Law Order Individual Social Essence Communicate Mediums Pot Application Governors Machinery Rotten Despised Validity Legislators Solidity

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“Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.”

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Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.”

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Book:Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld

Source: Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.”

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Book:Mirror Mirror: A Novel

Source: Mirror Mirror: A Novel

“The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.”

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Book:The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations”

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Book:Book of Lies

Source: Book of Lies

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.”

Persons Stills Book Reading Perfect Pleasure Scene Mirrors Drinking Lovely Drunk One Love Lending Loveliness Rereading Perfect Beauty

Book:Europe Central

Source: Europe Central