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Gravity’s Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

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“Things go on same; day after day”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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“All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: fatalism, humor, stars, war

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“Have read little and understood less.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

tags: art, artist, beautiful, creation, object, question

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“...it is often impossible to tell the difference between the ravages of deep love and cheap whiskey on the vital organs...”
― Joseph Heller, Good as Gold

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