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Gerard Gerard said: " A close look at Jackson. Great detail. Intimate. Deeply knowledgeable of the historical context. But a very partisan view. The writers generosity is obvious from the first page. Meacham might have drunk too much of the Kool-aid.
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Bernie Sanders
“And let me make the radical statement that I don’t believe that you can say something profound in the 140 characters that make up a tweet.”
Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

William Gaddis
“I know you, I know you. You're the only serious person in the room, aren't you, the only one who understands, and you can prove it by the fact that you've never finished a single thing in your life. You're the only well-educated person, because you never went to college, and you resent education, you resent social ease, you resent good manners, you resent success, you resent any kind of success, you resent God, you resent Christ, you resent thousand-dollar bills, you resent Christmas, by God, you resent happiness, you resent happiness itself, because none of that's real. What is real, then? Nothing's real to you that isn't part of your own past, real life, a swamp of failures, of social, sexual, financial, personal...spiritual failure. Real life. You poor bastard. You don't know what real life is, you've never been near it. All you have is a thousand intellectualized ideas about life. But life? Have you ever measured yourself against anything but your own lousy past? Have you ever faced anything outside yourself? Life! You poor bastard.”
William Gaddis, The Recognitions

John Le Carré
“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
Frank Zappa

John Rogers
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
John Rogers

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