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you don't win arguments by saying 'Heidegger'

"The Internet is a vile, omnivorous privatization machine. A technological vector of capitalist domination. Heidegger."

"Yo, you don't win arguments by saying, 'Heidegger'."

—p.122 Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
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if solipsism was theory, then masturbation was practice

[...] All of this disqualified him as a good person and a feminist, but he wasn't antifeminist either, more of a solipsist--and if solipsism was theory, then masturbation was practice.

—p.112 by Tony Tulathimutte
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the missionary's lonely ordeal

[...] Penetration went ... okay, with some mistargeting, but then he began the missionary's lonely ordeal in the savage jungle. [...]

—p.105 by Tony Tulathimutte
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too exhausted to even make fun of it

Linda was angry that they could settle so easily into prescribed social roles, down to the smallest exchange--arguments over buying single-ply toilet paper or refilling the Brita pitcher, then collapsing together to watch reality TV in silence, too exhausted to even make fun of it.

—p.81 by Tony Tulathimutte
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so shit-scared of moralizing

[...] For her first grad seminar in American modernism [...] building a thesis from her marginalia in As I Lay Dying ("SUFFOCATING IN PERSPECTIVE"). Contemporary writers were so shit-scared of moralizing that they delegated to their poor characters the responsibility for conveying their philosoph…

—p.76 by Tony Tulathimutte