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If the movie is the love song that Kim Morgan called it, it’s the type of love that the German coroner-poet Gottfried Benn identified in his poem “Threat”: Know this: I live beast days. I am a water hour. At night my eyelids
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“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
― The Sun Also Rises
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
― The Sun Also Rises
“I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Because we are linked by blood and blood is memory without language.”
― I Lock My Door Upon Myself
― I Lock My Door Upon Myself
“To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not.”
― A Fair Maiden
― A Fair Maiden
“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
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