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“Often I imagine that living is a game of rock-paper-scissors: fate beats hope, hope beats ignorance, and ignorance beats fate. Or, in a version that has preoccupied me: the fatalistic attracts the hopeful, the hopeful attracts the ignorant, and the ignorant, the fatalistic.”
― The Book of Goose
― The Book of Goose
“The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”
― Lonesome Dove
― Lonesome Dove
“But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“SOMETIMES YOU HEAR PEOPLE say so-and-so has lived well, and so-and-so has had a dull life. They are missing a key point when they say that. Any experience is experience, any life a life. A day in a cloister can be as dramatic and fatal as a day on a battlefield.”
― The Book of Goose
― The Book of Goose
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