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""Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think."" — Jun 19, 2016 08:40AM
""Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think."" — Jun 19, 2016 08:40AM
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""I needed to make sure she understood the way I understood. my mother said it was lie a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn't rewind it while you were listening to it. And so you'd forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without you even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end."" — May 13, 2016 09:39PM
""I needed to make sure she understood the way I understood. my mother said it was lie a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn't rewind it while you were listening to it. And so you'd forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without you even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end."" — May 13, 2016 09:39PM
“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“I told her that magic spells only work until the person under the spell is really and honestly tired of it. It ends when continuing becomes simply too ghastly a prospect.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“Under the influence of mercury, which he administered to himself daily as a salve for his syphilis, & laudanum, which he drank each evening in imprecisely measured amounts to enable him to sleep, because of all things, this brave man feared only his dreams, opiate-enhanced nightmares that gave him no respite & which always ended in flames from which he rose phoenix-like just before dawn each morning, to recommence building what was already ash.”
― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
“-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries!”
― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
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