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She can’t help herself—faint comfort is better than no comfort at all, you see? Her world is very cold, and this is the thing she warms herself over with.” Jennifer looked at the old woman cooking eggs in the kitchen and smiled sadly. “It ...more
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Jack Kerouac
“The only truth is music.”
Jack Kerouac

Agatha Christie
“The chains of habit. We work to attain an object, and the object gained, we find that what we miss is the daily toil.”
Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Terry Pratchett
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Paul Auster
“And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.”
Paul Auster

Cormac McCarthy
“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
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