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“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
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“I had a dream. I had an awesome dream.”
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“Instead, the threat to democracy now in America and elsewhere comes from the working and middle classes—the people among whom I was born and raised—whose rage comes overwhelmingly from cultural insecurity, inflated expectations, tribal partisan alliances, obsessions about ethnicity and identity, blunted ambition, and a childlike understanding of the limits of government.”
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy

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