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I was amazed how much mental energy it took just to compose a decent message—and how agonizing it was having to wait for a response!
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
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“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”
― Infidel
― Infidel
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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