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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
― Hear the Wind Sing
― Hear the Wind Sing
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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