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“Dead. things, dead things. . ." I said. "Come no closer. Talking of madness and love, in this reeking place! And that old monster, Magnus, locking them up in his dungeon. How did he love them, his captives? The way boys love butterflies when they rip off their wings!”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
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“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
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“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
“I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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