"30. I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the mildest threat... 44. I understood that moving from the condition of a prisoner to the condition of a free man is … Continue reading Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag
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Belief vs. Doubt
"Franzen thinks that there’s no way for a writer to do good work — to write something that can be called “consuming and extraordinarily moving” — without putting a fence around yourself so that you can control the input you encounter. So that you could have a thought that isn’t subject to pushback all the … Continue reading Belief vs. Doubt
