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  1. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    He wondered why he cared so desperately about the fate of his adopted country and others seemingly so little. "To see the character of the government and the country so sported with, exposed to so indelible a blot, puts my heart to the torture. Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American ground? Or what is it that thus torments me at a circumstance so calmly viewed by almost everybody else? Am I a fool, a romantic Quixote, or is there a constitutional defect in the American mind? Were it not for yourself and a few others, I . . . would say . . . there is something in our climate which belittles every animal, human or brute. . . . I disclose to you without reserve the state of my mind. It is discontented and gloomy in the extreme. I consider the cause of good government as having been put to an issue and the verdict against it.
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  2. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes.
    book-quoteloveidealismbeauty

  3. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people."
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  4. Thomas Pynchon _ Bleeding Edge

    Times of great idealism carry equal chances for greater corruptibility.
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  5. Thomas Pynchon _ Bleeding Edge

    You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that had a price, just underneath was the pure terror. Midnight forever. If you stopped even for a minute to think, there it was and you could fall into it so easily. Some fell. Some went nuts, some even took their own lives.
    book-quoteidealismrevisionism

  6. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
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  7. Don DeLillo _ Running Dog

    The son of a bitch believes.
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  8. Philip Gourevitch _ We Wish to Inform You That

    The spectre of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual - always an annoyance to totality - ceases to exist.
    book-quoteracismidealismindividuality

  9. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.
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  10. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
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  11. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.''Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race.
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  12. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm not too happy it's within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me. Because their beautiful thinking ignores both history and human nature. Because they'd spoil my thing with their thing. Because I don't think any of them is wise enough to play God and create a human society. Look. I like privacy, I don't like crowds, I don't like noise, I don't like anarchy, I don't even like discussion all that much. I prefer study, which is very different from meditation-not better, different. I don't like children who are part of the wild life. So are polecats and rats and other sorts of hostile and untrained vermin. I want to make a distinction between civilization and the wild life. I want a society that will protect the wild life without confusing itself with it.
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