“They were careless people ... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made . . . . ”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Human sympathy has its limits.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I think, therefore I doubt.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“But she was beautiful and she surrendered herself with the dignity of a sacrificial virgin. My chest was full of pain, my eyes smarted, and I was afraid – O monstrous trick against reason – I was afraid I was about to sob. I wanted to smash things, bring down the night with my howl of rage. But I kept still. She was beautiful, as innocent as dawn on winter hills. She tore me apart as once the Shaper’s song had done.”
― Grendel
― Grendel
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