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“What you’re saying is that if someone pays you enough, it’s okay to abandon what you have claimed to understand as moral and right.”
“winds of history, found himself reciprocating. Writing checks with his mouth that his ass could never hope to cover.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Oh Hartley, Hartley, how timeless, how absolute love is. My love for you is unaware that I am old and you perhaps are dead.”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“Tenderness and absolute trust and communication and truth: these things matter more and more as one grows older.”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“and I still did not know what to think about the fact that I had briefly borne death in my body—”
― Audition
― Audition
“In 1920, H. G. Wells, the futurist, already anxious about the direction of the modern world, wrote: “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
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