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Yet after a mass shooting by a white supremacist, Omar does not hesitate to call out white supremacy and seek to pin the blame on Trump and his supporters.

Basically Heidegger's thought emerges out of a distinction between tribal society or Gemeinschaft and commercial society or Gesellschaft.

the Declaration of Independence does not mean we are equal in endowments, only in rights.

I thought of myself as a revolutionary, committed to overturning the whole system of empire.1 BILL AYERS, PUBLIC ENEMY

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. —THOMAS PAINE

The difference between a story and an essay is that the storyteller just wants to entertain the reader, while the essayist has been to graduate school.

The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.

Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

As she only cries about once a year I really ought to have gone over and comforted her, but I wanted to set it all down here. I begin to see that writers are liable to become callous.

I don't intend to let myself become the kind of author who can only work in seclusion – after all, Jane Austen wrote in the sitting-room and merely covered up her work when a visitor called (though I bet she thought a thing or two) – but I am not quite Jane Austen yet and there are limits to what I can stand.

It was a rather dreadful thought but somehow comforting.

I could look at stationers' shops for ever and ever. Rose says they are the dullest shops in the world except, perhaps, butchers'. (I don't see how you can call butchers' shops dull; they are too full of horror.)

Before their marriages, Mr Dearly and Pongo had lived in a bachelor flat, where they were looked after by Mr Dearly's old nurse, Nanny Butler. Mrs Dearly and Missis had also lived in a bachelor flat (there are no such things as spinster flats)

and a large, muscular male cat with humanoid features discuss

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

This was worse than a retched nightmare. It was the nightmare of real things, the fallen wonder of the world

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

I like your mother. You have your mother's breasts. Her breasts. Great stand-up tits. he said

How stupid these people were, coming into my office unarmed.

This is not a story about your disappointment at my silence. The theme of this story is my pain and my attempts to end it.

At breakfast, Babette read all our horoscopes aloud, using her storytelling voice. I tried not to listen when she got to mine, although I think I wanted to listen, I think I sought some clues.