Gary Arellano
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“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“The more things I threw away, the more I found.”
― Don DeLillo's White Noise
― Don DeLillo's White Noise
“I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act.
I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
― Giovanni’s Room
I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
― Giovanni’s Room
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