New Orts #20
June 2 MMXXIV
In the beginning, there’s a blank mind. Then that mind gets an idea in it, and the trouble begins, because the mind mistakes the idea for the world. Mistaking the idea for the world, the mind formulates a theory and, having formulated a theory, feels inclined to act.
— George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone
Ideology is not acquired by thought but by breathing the haunted air.
— Lionel Trilling, Contemporary American Literature in Its Relation to Ideas, February 1949
Time is a dressmaker, specializing in alterations.
— Faith Baldwin, (1893–1978)
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