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Matt Gile

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Matt’s Quotes

“She didn't recognize him and he didn't recognize her, because people and places change and what once was will never be again.”
― T.C. Boyle, Tooth and Claw

tags: tooth-and-claw

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“You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.”
― Paul Valéry, Selected Writings

tags: epigraph

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“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
― David Foster Wallace

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“Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.”
― Greg Egan

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“To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.”
― Paul Valery

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South Union Sisters / Taco Planes — 9 members — last activity Aug 13, 2014 09:44AM
Online spot for the South Union Sisters book club to congregate. Send an email to tacoplanes@googlegroups.com to be added to the email list - this is ...more