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“Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“The Thin Man

I indulge myself
In rich refusals.
Nothing suffices.

I hone myself to
This edge. Asleep, I
Am a horizon.”
― Donald Justice, Night Light

“Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son