“The essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.”
― Haunted
― Haunted
“I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time in my life, my belief in man as an individual and independent entity. Certainly not independence in the everyday sense of the word, but pertaining to a freedom and mobility of thought that few people are able - or even have the courage - to achieve.”
― Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
― Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“I was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliché.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
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