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“The fellow is a catastrophe, but that’s no reason not to find him interesting as a personality and destiny.”

-- Thomas Mann

“There’s never been so much Hitler.”-- Norbert Frei (2005 ( Read more... )

It is a little interesting to see that the stalwart conservative William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was feeling darkly disillusioned toward the end of his career and life.

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“There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always a prey to his truths.”

-- Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus”

"As a writer, Tom Wolfe operated on the premise that atmosphere was character, that you knew almost all you needed to know about someone by the way he dressed, how he decorated his apartment."

-- Julie Salamon, "The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco"

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"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."

-- James Branch Cabell