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"Hard going, without being hard going...but I just wasn't in it. Next to the bed, with all intention of picking it up again. Realistically, it may be a while. But I still have to face the friend who recommended it..." — Feb 17, 2013 10:39AM
"Hard going, without being hard going...but I just wasn't in it. Next to the bed, with all intention of picking it up again. Realistically, it may be a while. But I still have to face the friend who recommended it..." — Feb 17, 2013 10:39AM
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
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“Pumblechook made out, after carefully surveying the premises, that he had first got upon the roof of the forge, and had then got upon the roof of the house, and had then let himself down the kitchen chimney by a rope made of his bedding cut into strips; and as Mr. Pumblechook was very positive and drove his own chaise-cart — over Everybody — it was agreed that it must be so. Mr. Wopsle, indeed, wildly cried out, “No!” with the feeble malice of a tired man; but, as he had no theory, and no coat on, he was unanimously set at naught,— not to mention his smoking hard behind, as he stood with his back to the kitchen fire to draw the damp out: which was not calculated to inspire confidence.”
― Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels
― Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
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