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“And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
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“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)”
― The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)”
― The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950
“I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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― No Country for Old Men
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― No Country for Old Men
“That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that's the source of our descent, and it doesn't start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home.”
― A Fraction of the Whole
― A Fraction of the Whole
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