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“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― The Camel Club
― The Camel Club
“This is a foul thing that shouldn’t be allowed to exist. No firearms should exist. The fact that they are still made and that all sorts of people have them lying about in drawers or carry them around in the street just shows that the whole system is perverted and crazy. Some bastard makes a fat profit by making and selling arms, just the way other people make a fat profit on factories that make narcotics and deadly pills. Do you get it?”
― The Laughing Policeman
― The Laughing Policeman
“The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.”
― Capital
― Capital
“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”
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“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him—that is the best account of it that has been yet given. Squalor and tragedy can beckon to all that is great in us; and strengthen the wings of love.”
― Howards End
― Howards End
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