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“I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
“Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up.”
― Tennyson's Gift: Stories from the Lynne Truss Omnibus, Book 2
― Tennyson's Gift: Stories from the Lynne Truss Omnibus, Book 2
“Hair on a man's head is like the opposite of salt in a dish; you can take it away but you can't add it in.”
― The Business
― The Business
“You know what they say: Better one true friend than a hundred relatives.”
― The Virgins of Venice
― The Virgins of Venice
“shaking hands I was doing something that I was to do countless times in the years to come: acting in conformity with what others expected of me even though, by the very nature and form of my life, I did not and could not share their spirit. (After I had outlived the shocks of childhood, after the habit of reflection had been born in me, I used to mull over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair.”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
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