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He watched the bonfire’s smoke rise into the sky and wondering if his dad was being cremated as he sat there.
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“Time is not a river, as Einstein theorized - it's a big fucking buffalo herd that runs us down and eventually mashes us into the ground, dead and bleeding, with a hearing aid plugged into one ear and a colostomy bag instead of a .44 clapped on one leg.”
― Danse Macabre
― Danse Macabre
“When you want to feel better, call something a piece of shit. It usually works.”
― Revival
― Revival
“But Uncle Gavin says it don't take many words to tell the sum of any human experience; that somebody has already done it in eight: He was born, he suffered and he died.”
― Knight's Gambit
― Knight's Gambit
“As our great American philosopher William James has said, an individual has as many selves as there are individuals whom he knows. There isn't the slightest hypocrisy in this, but only pragmatic ethics. For not all persons are worthy of our acquaintance, and not all persons require equal time from us. You save your most valuable 'personality' for the most valuable persons you know.”
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“Reverend was right about one thing: people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.”
― Revival
― Revival
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