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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
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Shirley Jackson,
The Haunting of Hill House
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“The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.”
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Anthony Burgess
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“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
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John Steinbeck
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“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
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East of Eden
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
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