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More tea, Wesley?

• • 80
  • Dec 31
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  American presidential elections are increasingly indistinguishable from the reality TV competitions drowning the nation’s airwaves. Both are vapid, personality-driven and painfully protracted affairs, with the winners crowned by virtue of their ability to appear slightly more tolerable than the cast of annoying rejects whom the public eliminates one by one.

  Glenn Greenwald (via thegermansmakegoodstuff)
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• • 31
  • Jan 31
  Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  from “The Sayings of Muad’Dib” by the Princess Irulan, Dune, Frank Herbert
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• • 10
  • Apr 5
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  ‘What do you mean?’ he said. ‘Do you wish me a good morning, or do you mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good in this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?’

  The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (via douglasreads)
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