“I remembered you with my soul clenched”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.”
― The Call of the Wild
― The Call of the Wild
“Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let's go out and fight for liberty and so they went out and got killed without ever once thinking of liberty. And what kind of liberty were they fighting for anyway? How much liberty and whose kind of liberty? Were they fighting for the liberty of eating free ice cream cones all their lives or for the liberty of robbing anybody they pleased whenever they wanted to or what? You tell a man he can't rob and you take away some of his liberty. You've got to. What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he's talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it? No sir anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.”
― Johnny Got His Gun
― Johnny Got His Gun
“But that's another story and shall be told another time”
― The Neverending Story
― The Neverending Story
“I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
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