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Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rud...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive s...

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Terry EagletonLiterary Theory: An Introduction

No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past c...

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Thomas SowellBlack Rednecks and White Liberals

Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we ...

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Vilem FlusserVampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise

A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful l...

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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

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Michel FoucaultMadness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more ...

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Richard MathesonI Am Legend and Other Stories