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by James Joyce
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"I promised myself I’d finish this before the twenties came back round but I‘m really struggling to see how it’s worth the faff tbh" — Dec 19, 2019 11:48PM
"I promised myself I’d finish this before the twenties came back round but I‘m really struggling to see how it’s worth the faff tbh" — Dec 19, 2019 11:48PM
“But since you bring it up, Didier, you know what I think of language? That it’s a fake horizon and there’s something else, a real truthful thing, but language is keeping us from it. And I think we should torture language to stop fucking around and tell it to us. We should torture language to tell the truth.”
― The Flamethrowers
― The Flamethrowers
“The general advice is always be yourself, be yourself, which only makes sense if you haven't got an attitude problem.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“A blend of good and bad characterized all humans, and to pretend to sort that out was an insult to human complexity. But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was OK to be murky to yourself, to know you weren't an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into good and bad.”
― The Flamethrowers
― The Flamethrowers
“That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us.”
― The Snow Queen
― The Snow Queen
“A blend of good and bad characterized all humans, and to pretend to sort that out was an insult to human complexity. But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren’t an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into good and bad.”
― The Flamethrowers
― The Flamethrowers
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