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“I wanted solitude, but a treasure like that didn't exist in the city. I only found silence in Central Park, still littered with people of course, but the only place that held moments of calm. I breathed in that wonderful silence as my pace finally slowed, and nature delighted my senses.”
― Slow Down
― Slow Down
“What was after the universe?
Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.”
― The Gargoyle
― The Gargoyle
“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”
― Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
― Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
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