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What author(s) really "get it?" Get you?

Thomas Covenant “But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train him and counsel him. They would put him back into life as if his illness were all that mattered, as if wisdom were only skin deep, as if grief and remorse and horror were nothing but illusions, tricks done with mirrors, irrelevant to chrome and porcelain and clean, white, stiff hospital sheets and fluorescent lights.”

Philip K. Dick: "“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
 
yeh youre right on the road is kerouac the road is mccarthy both good

Yes! Yes, Laugh, I've read The Road. Did it in rehab a year ago. It reads really fast, so when I finished it in a day all the other patients were so impressed. I didn't how them the text so they'd confuse me for a literary-consuming juggernaut, behemoth. I mean, which I am.
 
Great quote from On the Road, Kerouac: “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
 
Honestly, I enjoyed Herrnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve. Can't argue with numbers, bitches.
 
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