The Death of Truth

"Choose your metaphor: muddying the waters, throwing chum to the sharks, cranking up the fog machine, flinging gorilla dust in the public’s eyes: it’s a tactic designed to create adrenal fatigue and news exhaustion, a strategy perfectly designed for our ADD, information-overloaded age, 'this twittering world,' in T.S. Eliot’s words, where people can be 'distracted from distraction by distraction.'"

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The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump, p. 143
By Michiko Kakutani
Published 2018 by Tim Duggan Books

An American Marriage

"But home isn’t where you land; home is where you launch. You can’t pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land."

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An American Marriage, p. 4
By Tayari Jones
Published 2018 by Algonquin Books