“Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.”
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“A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”
― Choke
― Choke
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