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"Hans Castorp: my friend lent me a pencil and I spontaneously combusted.
Also Hans Castorp: Women dress quite alluringly. I am very heterosexual." — Jan 14, 2026 09:24AM
"Hans Castorp: my friend lent me a pencil and I spontaneously combusted.
Also Hans Castorp: Women dress quite alluringly. I am very heterosexual." — Jan 14, 2026 09:24AM
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Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort of peace? Certainly it has always seemed so to me. All events, no matter how earth-shaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by
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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“They’d come here with things to say, even if they didn’t know how to say them. The thing was to keep your head down. But if you did keep your head down, you’d drown in other people’s words.
“—fully taken into. Account; at every stage of the planning process—”
Johnny stood up, because it was that or drowning. He felt his head break through the tide of words, and he breathed in. And then out.
"Excuse me, please?”
― Johnny and the Dead
“—fully taken into. Account; at every stage of the planning process—”
Johnny stood up, because it was that or drowning. He felt his head break through the tide of words, and he breathed in. And then out.
"Excuse me, please?”
― Johnny and the Dead
“Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and afford the dead of war two minutes' silence. Afterwards, they speak golden platitudes about the struggle and the heroism of that time. Yet the words they speak are meaningless because they have surrendered the values my generation built after the horrors of the Second World War.”
― Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it
― Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it
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