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Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five
There was one man who had probably never even thought about starting Spanish lessons on TV. He had probably never thought about the difference between hard work and manual labor, either. He was probably too busy to think about such things—busy with work, and busy bringing home a daughter who had run away to Fukushima.
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood (Vintage International)
I am well aware now that all of these actions had more to do with charity than justice—that they would probably now fall under the general rubric of “white savior complex.” And I’m aware that those are sound cautions. When we were at Frogmore, our college acceptance letters were arriving back home; when we got off the bus we went home to envelopes
... See moreBill McKibben • The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
WILLIAM HAD BEGUN TO WORRY THAT HE NO LONGER SPARKED JOY IN his wife and that she would give him to Goodwill. It was alarmingly easy to picture. His wife would thank him for his service and then drop him off at the donation center, the one behind the store with the blankly sinister roll-up doors. Goodwill would take him in and William would live
... See moreKatherine Heiny • Games and Rituals
In September the twin towers fell. I’d never heard of them until they were gone.
Tara Westover • Educated: A Memoir
Only she, Hélène, knew that it was the number of days he had left to live. He’d allotted himself 1,825 as of April 1, 2014. Why 1,825? Hélène didn’t know. Curiously, she’d never done the calculation I did for her that morning: 1,825 days is five years on the button, so he’d been planning to die on April 1, 2019. Too optimistic, since he died on
... See moreJohn Lambert • Yoga
Vonnegut’s seventh rule: “Pity the readers”:
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
Mill held that truth emerges from an unfettered competition of ideas and that individual character is most improved when allowed to find its own way uncoerced. That vision was insufficient for 20th-century American liberalism.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
To the ‘right’ he shows the consequences of a love of money and markets, of government by corporation, of an economic growth unmoored from place, which eats through nature and culture and leaves ruins. To the ‘left’ he shows the consequences of a rootless individualism, of rights without rites, of the rejection of family and tradition, of the
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