“These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives: for all the scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation of the grave. Bodies jerk like puppet corpses, and hell walks laughing— Laughing”
― Lord Foul's Bane
― Lord Foul's Bane
“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― Requiem for a Nun
― Requiem for a Nun
“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”
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We are monkeys with money and guns.”
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“It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.”
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