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“Is this some kind of joke?"
"That's for me to know and you to find out."
"Maybe you think it's funny to put up signs about people who want to commit suicide."
"Are you about to?"
"And what if I was?"
"I wouldn't tell you the gorgeous reasons I have discovered for going on living."
"What would you do?"
"I'd ask you to name the rock-bottom price you'd charge to go on living for just one more week.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
"That's for me to know and you to find out."
"Maybe you think it's funny to put up signs about people who want to commit suicide."
"Are you about to?"
"And what if I was?"
"I wouldn't tell you the gorgeous reasons I have discovered for going on living."
"What would you do?"
"I'd ask you to name the rock-bottom price you'd charge to go on living for just one more week.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!”
― 12 Years a Slave
― 12 Years a Slave
“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
“...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,
The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.”
― Twelve Years a Slave
The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.”
― Twelve Years a Slave
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