A LIBRARY OF FOLDED CORNERS

She understood that this was the reality of the music business, but the vision of going to Europe and advancing Tanner's career was too perfect to be defeated by reality.

—Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

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  • Absurdity
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  • Amazing!
  • Analogies
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  • Bizarrerie
  • Civil government
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  • Commerce
  • Contrast
  • Creeds
  • Cultural evolution
  • Cultural friction
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  • Culture (historical)
  • DalĂ­
  • Discourse
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  • Epiphanies
  • Ethics
  • Food for thought
  • Gender
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  • Hyperbole
  • I find this funny
  • Ideas
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  • Kindness
  • Lost knowledge
  • Love
  • Materialism
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  • Mood
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  • Napoleonism
  • Pascal's Wager
  • Perspective
  • Picasso
  • Psychology
  • Religion
  • Respect
  • Responsibility
  • Revisionism
  • Romanticism
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  • Self-delusion
  • Self-government
  • So true!
  • Specialization
  • Spectacle
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  • The Future
  • The triangle
  • Unclassified
  • War
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