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Besides my conscience, my liver was the most abused part of my body.
“On an average, 324,000 new babies are born into the world every day. During that same day, 10,000 persons, on an average, will have starved to death or died from malnutrition. So it goes. In addition 123,000 persons will die for other reasons. So it goes. This leaves a net gain of about 191,000 each day in the world. The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world’s total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. “I suppose they will all want dignity,” I said. “I suppose,” said O’Hare.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”
― Three Comrades
― Three Comrades
“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“I could live without television, but not without books.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“MARILYN: Remember, I said if anybody ever asked you what Marilyn Monroe was really like – well, how would you answer them? (Her tone was teaseful, mocking, yet earnest, too: she wanted an honest reply) I bet you’d tell them I was a slob. A banana split.
TRUMAN CAPOTE: Of course, but I’d also say…
(The light was leaving. She seemed to fade with it, blend with the sky and clouds, recede beyond them. I wanted to lift my voice louder than the seagulls cries and call her back: Marilyn! Marilyn, why did everything have to turn out the way it did? Why does life have to be so fucking rotten?)
TRUMAN CAPOTE: I’d say…
MARILYN: I can’t hear you.
TRUMAN CAPOTE: I’d say you are a beautiful child.”
― Marilyn Monroe: A Beautiful Child
TRUMAN CAPOTE: Of course, but I’d also say…
(The light was leaving. She seemed to fade with it, blend with the sky and clouds, recede beyond them. I wanted to lift my voice louder than the seagulls cries and call her back: Marilyn! Marilyn, why did everything have to turn out the way it did? Why does life have to be so fucking rotten?)
TRUMAN CAPOTE: I’d say…
MARILYN: I can’t hear you.
TRUMAN CAPOTE: I’d say you are a beautiful child.”
― Marilyn Monroe: A Beautiful Child
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