“So many of the bad things that happen in the world come from people pretending to be something they’re not.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“do you know what a cliché is? It’s a story so fine and thrilling that it’s grown old in its hopeful retelling.”
― French Exit
― French Exit
“Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.”
― Bartleby, the Scrivener
― Bartleby, the Scrivener
“Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
“the trouble with knowing people is how the target keeps moving.”
― Biography of X
― Biography of X
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