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"A happy "ending?" At 62% complete? ...I am scared to read further. ;A;" — Jan 23, 2025 01:05PM
"A happy "ending?" At 62% complete? ...I am scared to read further. ;A;" — Jan 23, 2025 01:05PM
Boy's Life
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But satellites could go up and spit sparks in outer space. A man with a beard and a cigar could jabber in Spanish on an island off the coast of Florida while blood reddened a bay for pigs. That bald-headed Russian could bang his shoe.
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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― The Last Continent
― The Last Continent
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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