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“The people of former times [...] they're dead that's the only thing they have over the living but in their own day they were just as sickening. Picturesqueness: I don't fall for that not for one minute. Stinking filthy dirty washing cabbage-stalks what a pretentious fool you have to be to go into such ecstasies over that! And it's the same thing everywhere all the time whether they're stuffing themselves with chips paella or pizza it's the same crew a filthy crew the rich who trample over you the poor who hate you for your money the old who dodder the young who sneer the men who show off the women who open their legs. I'd rather stay at home reading a thriller although they've become so dreary nowadays. The telly too what a clapped-out set of fools! I was made for another planet altogether I mistook the way.”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“After all, the right stuff was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life (by riding on top of a Redstone or Atlas rocket). Any fool could do that (and many fools would no doubt volunteer, given the opportunity), just as any fool could throw his life away in the process. No, the idea (as all pilots understood) was that a man should have the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery and put his hide on the line and have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness, to pull it back at the last yawning moment—but how in the name of God could you either hang it out or haul it back if you were a lab animal sealed in a pod? Every”
― The Right Stuff
― The Right Stuff
“I want to live in the calmness of the morning light.”
― The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
― The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
“I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?”
“I started living with you guys.”
“Oh, right.”
― The Dead Girls' Dance
“I started living with you guys.”
“Oh, right.”
― The Dead Girls' Dance
“Da settembre il villaggio non era più abituato a sentire passi, risate, voci giovanili; era stordito, sopraffatto dal rumore crescente che saliva da quella marea di uniformi verdi, da quell'odore di corpi sani, di carne giovane, e soprattutto dai suoni di quella lingua straniera. I tedeschi invadevano le case, i negozi, i caffè. I loro stivali risuonavano sui pavimenti rossi delle cucine. Chiedevano da mangiare, da bere. Passando accarezzavano i bambini. Gesticolavano, cantavano, ridevano alle donne. La loro aria felice, la loro ebbrezza da conquistatori, quella febbre, quella follia, quell'entusiasmo misto a una sorta di stupore, come se loro stessi non riuscissero a credere a quanto stava accadendo, tutto questo produceva una tale tensione, era così eccitante che i vinti erano portati a dimenticare per qualche attimo il proprio dolore e il proprio rancore.”
― Suite Française
― Suite Française
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