“Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her”
― To Have and Have Not
― To Have and Have Not
“A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.”
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A wall is built brick by brick, and a story word by word, and sometimes it is the writing on the wall that inspires us. ~~Nate Farren This group is f ...more
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