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“I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.”
I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not
being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.”
― Divergent
I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not
being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.”
― Divergent
“It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.”
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“What was on the other side?"
Donna said, "He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it."
"He... never went through it?"
"That’s why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment; he never thought of going through it, he just admired the doorway and then later he couldn’t see it at all and it was too late. It opened for him a few days and then it was closed and gone forever.”
― A Scanner Darkly
Donna said, "He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it."
"He... never went through it?"
"That’s why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment; he never thought of going through it, he just admired the doorway and then later he couldn’t see it at all and it was too late. It opened for him a few days and then it was closed and gone forever.”
― A Scanner Darkly
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
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