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“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“La mia vita è leggera, e attende il vento della morte, come una piuma sul dorso della mia mano.”
― Walter Tevis, Mockingbird

“If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.”
― Irwin Corey

“...rileggere un libro amato è come tornare in un luogo sacro in cui nulla è cambiato, esperienza per noi ovviamente impossibile perché il mondo cambia sempre.”
― John Williams

“Like Hemingway said, the only thing that could spoil a day was people.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

“Fino al giorno in cui mi minacciarono di non lasciarmi più leggere, non seppi di amare la lettura: si ama, forse, il proprio respiro?”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“La tecnologia è un meccanismo di liberazione delle risorse. Può trasformare in abbondante quello che un tempo era scarso.”
― Kotler Steven and Diamandis Peter

“Nuff said!”
― Stan Lee

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.”
― Douglas Coupland

“Life with a cheat code isn't life. Our existence isn't something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That's what it is to be human - the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?”
― Douglas Coupland, JPod

“If you change the way your brain processes an event, you change the duration of the ‘now.’ You actually change the point at which the present becomes the past.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Mr. Suttree it is our understanding that at curfew rightly decreed by law and in that hour wherein night draws to its proper close and the new day commences and contrary to conduct befitting a person of your station you betook yourself to various low places within the shire of McAnally and there did squander several ensuing years in the company of thieves, derelicts, miscreants, pariahs, poltroons, spalpeens, curmudgeons, clotpolls, murderers, gamblers, bawds, whores, trulls, brigands, topers, tosspots, sots and archsots, lobcocks, smellsmocks, runagates, rakes, and other assorted and felonious debauchees.

I was drunk, cried Suttree.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“I know all the people I want to know.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree