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Some people grumble about monotony,—such complaints are the marks of immaturity, sensible people don’t like things happening.
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
― Timequake
― Timequake
“Insanity is contagious.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
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“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
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