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#1

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

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#2

“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: shiver

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#3

“You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly.”
― shirley jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: wanting

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#4

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

tags: behavior, evil, personality

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#5

“This is not an exit.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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#6

“Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

tags: goodness

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#7

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

tags: war, ww1

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#8

“We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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#9

“Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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#10

“What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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#11

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

tags: american, american-psycho, conclusion, crime, cruel, demons, epiphany, evil, gore, horror, human-beings, human-nature, humanity, humans, life, living, murder, murderer, murderers, psycho, psychopath, quote, serial-killer, serial-killers, society, the-world, theory

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