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“His very regard for truth melts at last into a perversion of truth.”
― George Dangerfield

“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”
― Albert Camus

“The left one's the hospital, the right one's death. The right one steals your life while the left steals your breath. These hands are bad juju and the bad boogaloo, they're the teeth of the demon as he slides down the flue.”
― James Ellroy

“...symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on the top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”
― Tom Waits

“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
― John Wesley

“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”
― Albert Camus

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984