“I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.”
― Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
― Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
“God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone.”
― Jaws
― Jaws
“Love's love in her blackest season.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
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