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“The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.”
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“Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.”
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“Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflic...”
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