“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
― Our Mutual Friend
― Our Mutual Friend
“And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.”
― Jesus’ Son
― Jesus’ Son
“She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.”
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“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?”
― Jesus’ Son
― Jesus’ Son
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