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Dan Simmons
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The Fall of Hyperion
This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields.I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Return of the King
Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?
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Paul Murray
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The Mark and the Void
Capitalism needs war.
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Raymond Chandler
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The Little Sister
It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.
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Frank Herbert
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Dune Messiah
Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.
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Matt Taibbi
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Griftopia: Bubble Machines,
To sum it all up, the {Ayn} Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.3. Charity is immoral.4. Pay for your own fucking schools."
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Zoë Heller
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What Was She Thinking? [Notes
If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.
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John Updike
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Rabbit Is Rich
The fucking world is running out of gas.
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John Updike
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Rabbit Is Rich
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
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Barbara W. Tuchman
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of
His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.
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Milan Kundera
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Life is Elsewhere
Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
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H.G. Wells
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The Holy Terror
Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.
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