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Either you think everything is going to be okay or you dont want to think about it at all. REINER Because the third possibility is not something you’re ready to admit to. MALKINA Yes. The excluded middle. The Tertium non Datur.
“Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that mazeis itself an enslavement for it voids every alternate and binds one ever more tightly in to the constraints that make a life.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
“bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.”
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“He always spoke of himself to me “as an unskilled laborer in the vineyard of the Lord, with regard to outlook as well as wages.”
― The Clown
― The Clown
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