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The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

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Ivan’s Quotes

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

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“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with. You may not live on the island, but you can’t tell me it’s not your home. Your bubble, Mr. Baker. It’s been popped. Why would you allow it to grow around you again?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

tags: found-family

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“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

tags: science-miracles

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“I wonder what makes this change different. I wonder why it has to be me and somewhere deep in my core I think how wildly beautiful it is to exist in spite of all the places the stories of men like you, like us, are left untold.”
― Robin Gow, A Million Quiet Revolutions

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