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“...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― The Road
― The Road
“I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“History admits no rules; only outcomes.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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