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“The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.”
― Death of a Salesman
― Death of a Salesman
“My mother is a fish.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the ripples moving on, spreading, the pool attached by a narrow umbilical water-cord to the next pool which the first pool feeds, has fed, did feed, let this second pool contain a different temperature of water, a different molecularity of having seen, felt, remembered, reflect in a different tone the infinite unchanging sky, it doesn’t matter: that pebble’s watery echo whose fall it did not even see moves across its surface too at the original ripple-space, to the old ineradicable rhythm”
― Absalom, Absalom!
― Absalom, Absalom!
“When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.”
― Death of a Salesman
― Death of a Salesman
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