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As if their home cemetery in some way still did exist, in a land where you could somehow walk, and not need the East San Narciso Freeway, and bones still could rest in peace, nourishing ghosts of dandelions, no one to plow them up. As if ...more
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Ernest Hemingway
“You know I do know how he feels. He can't believe it didn't mean anything.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

David Foster Wallace
“back in the Ontarian days when men were men and so were drug-addicted bike-chicks”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Philip K. Dick
“If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.”
Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

Dan Simmons
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
Dan Simmons, Hyperion

J.R.R. Tolkien
“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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