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“In this particular lifestyle the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,” but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular lifestyle the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,” but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“Everything in life is just for a while.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
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