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“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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