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  • #1
    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #2
    Lewis Carroll
    “I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #3
    “In my restless dreams,
    I see that town.

    Silent Hill.”
    Sadamu Yamashita

  • #4
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #5
    Lewis Carroll
    “I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #6
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side.

    'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.'

    'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,' said Gandalf.

    'I fear it may be so with mine,' said Frodo. 'There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?'

    Gandalf did not answer.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #7
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #8
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “All this happened, more or less.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #9
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #10
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #11
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #12
    Jacqueline Harpman
    “I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
    Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

  • #13
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #14
    Iain Reid
    “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.”
    Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

  • #15
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #16
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #17
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #18
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “- Why me?
    - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
    - Yes.
    - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #19
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #20
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #21
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything is nothing, with a twist.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #24
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #25
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-five

  • #26
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

  • #28
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities

  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #30
    Iain Reid
    “We’re never inside someone else’s head. We can never really know someone else’s thoughts. And it’s thoughts that count. Thought is reality. Actions can be faked.”
    Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things



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