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"We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap."
— Kurt Vonnegut

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"I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

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"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
— Gustave Flaubert

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"Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example."
— Donald Barthelme

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"We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were."
— Mary Shelley

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"We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday."
— Samuel Beckett

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