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“Nothing much happens here. Lots happens to you with all
your shifting around. Don't that ever bother you ?”
― Breece D'J Pancake, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

“Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“He looked like a mound of bacterial sludge from a sceptic tank; a lump of toxic waste; a spillover from a council tip”
― Irvine Welsh, The Acid House

“It’s so still on the river, her laugh carries across the water to nowhere.”
― Ian McEwan, First Love, Last Rites

“It was strange watching Kate milk herself into a bottle. It made me think how we’re just animals with clothes on doing very peculiar things, like monkeys at a tea party.”
― Ian McEwan, First Love, Last Rites

“Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“He kept smiling, as if the corners of his mouth were strung up on invisible wire.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The ghetto market has mushroomed into suburbia.”
― Hunter S. Thompson