Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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Klieg light

In the klieg-light aftermath of his rape of thirteen-year-old Samantha Gailey, he said his desire to have sex with young girls was the most ordinary thing in the world.

—p.139 THE ANTI-MONSTER (134) by Claire Dederer
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when an author is a little in love with herself

I kept toying with this idea—the idea that I was writing the autobiography of the audience. But I wasn’t seeing myself as an audience member clearly—was only dimly aware that my perspective from my perch in the Present was not necessarily enlightened. An autobiography of the audience should be subj…

—p.115 THE ANTI-SEMITE, THE RACIST, AND THE PROBLEM OF TIME (112) by Claire Dederer
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weft

The Past is the place where anti-Semitism and racism and misogyny were woven into the very warp and weft of literature

—p.114 THE ANTI-SEMITE, THE RACIST, AND THE PROBLEM OF TIME (112) by Claire Dederer
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we want the asshole to cross the line

Even when I was a little kid, lying on my tummy, flipping through the LIFE photo book, I recognized something in these men, something different. Something that made them subject to different rules than the rest of the adults were following.

We want the asshole to cross the line, to break the rul…

—p.110 THE GENIUS (81) by Claire Dederer
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every waitress in North America and the British Isles

[...]In an interview with Vanity Fair, Wainwright said: “Married and the father of two small children, I was never home, drunk a good deal of the time, and apparently felt it necessary to sleep with every waitress in North America and the British Isles. But guess what. All these beans have been spi…

—p.104 THE GENIUS (81) by Claire Dederer