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“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”
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“How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place.”
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“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
― 84, Charing Cross Road
“He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.”
― The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
― The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
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