the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them
"Monstrous size alone has no intrinsic merit, unless inordinate exsanguination be considered a virtue."
It's actually from Blood Meridian. There's a similar quote from DD but it's not the same.
You need to trust people less, the quote was from DD and isn't mentioned anywhere at all in Blood Meridian. I haven't even read Blood Meridian. Believe it or not, I'm not even gay.
"It was a SPIDER and it was a SPIDER the WHOLE TIME!"
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
I don't actually say it I just think it's funny
Mine is "delusions of grandeur".
check this out: delusions of adequacy
Death to America
I've always liked the sound of "not my circus, not my monkeys"
Not a phrase but my favorite stealthy way to insult a piece of writing is to call it an autohagiography
At half time of a game once my coach said we "have to be as contrary as a bag of cats"
Carpe Diem. That or rattling off the beginning of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground.