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― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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“It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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