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Author: Jerrold Freitag

Jerrold Freitag lives and works in Berlin. He prefers being outside during inclement weather to being inside at all. Literature and Philosophy degrees from the Universities of Minnesota and Massachusetts. Advertising credentials a plus.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Existential fidgeting as wallpaper.

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Jack White

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He doesn’t do anything just because he can.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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He was mindful of how horrible we can make one another.

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Johnny Cash

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The ghost in Cash’s machine was Sturm und Drang Romanticism.

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Elliot Page

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No disparity between what’s funny and what hurts.

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Matt Dillon

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His smiles, tears, and wall-punching are the best.

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Paul Scheerbart

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“I became a humorist out of rage, not kindness.”

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Gertrud Kolmar

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Everything was a reagent for her compositions.

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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All of religion is crazy — not just the crazy parts.

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R.B. Kitaj

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Schiele’s shameful bent hand, Miró’s weird blue

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Dan Savage

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He took down Rick Santorum and started the It Gets Better project.

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Johnny Paycheck

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He made us wonder whether we’ll ever figure anything out.

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Rose Ausländer

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She strolled in the no man’s land between seeing too much and innocence.

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Karl Kraus

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He presaged barbarity by pointing out abuses to the German language.

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Marcus Aurelius

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How to act right and focus in the face of meaning­lessness.

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