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“He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man.”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
“This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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