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“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“The nightingales are sobbing in
The orchards of our mothers,
And hearts that we broke long ago
Have long been breaking others;
Tears are round, the sea is deep:
Roll them overboard and sleep. ”
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The orchards of our mothers,
And hearts that we broke long ago
Have long been breaking others;
Tears are round, the sea is deep:
Roll them overboard and sleep. ”
―
“There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble."
(The Mill)”
― The Portable Chekhov
(The Mill)”
― The Portable Chekhov
“[...] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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