“Now, then,” I said, using an oxymoron for scolding effect,
“Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.”
― O cavalo e o seu rapaz
― O cavalo e o seu rapaz
“Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventy-six. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always.
-Stephen Dedalus-”
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-Stephen Dedalus-”
―
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“And so it goes...”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
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