“Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
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