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Swallows, grasshoppers, a blossoming vine along the fence. How can it be that they are fugitives? How can the world have little places like this one, and legions of men who want them dead?
“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
― Changes
― Changes
“Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do.
Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.”
― Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.”
― Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
“Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.”
― The Light Fantastic
― The Light Fantastic
“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Italian in the mouth of Italians is a deep-voiced stream, with unexpected cataracts and boulders to preserve it from monotony. In Mr. Eager's mouth it resembled nothing so much as an acid whistling fountain which played ever higher and higher, and quicker and quicker, and more and more shrilly, till abruptly it was turned off with a click.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
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