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“The other afternoon, when you fell asleep on my shoulder, I drifted off, too. But before I did, it occurred to me looking around at all of your things and your work and going through years of work in my mind, that of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“James Joyce called Ireland the “sow that eats her farrow,” but Ireland has nothing on American capitalism.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a pair of clean hands is seldom among them.”
― Robert Harris, Imperium : L'ascension au pouvoir