“I got the idea in my head - and I could not get it out - that college was just one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference whether the treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge? I think that knowledge - when it’s knowledge for knowledge’s sake, anyway - is the worst of all. The least excusable certainly. I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while - just once in a while - there was some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn’t, it’s just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is!”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.”
― Mockingjay
― Mockingjay
“The first of the
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“...the day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole”
― The Autumn of the Patriarch
― The Autumn of the Patriarch
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