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“There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.”
― John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

“There is still one of which you never speak.'

Marco Polo bowed his head.

'Venice,' the Khan said.

Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?'

The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.'

And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“Oh no.' Straight raised his eyes to me, and a slight smile touched the corners of his lips. 'A philosophy of life is more terrible than syphilis and people - you have to give them credit - take every precaution not to become infected. Especially by a philosophy of life.”
― Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Memories of the Future

“Why frighten little children with the dark when one can quiet them with it and lead them into dreams?”
― Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Autobiography of a Corpse