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The Pianist
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I think it would have been psychologically easier to bear if we had been more obviously imprisoned – locked in a cell, for instance. That kind of imprisonment clearly, indubitably, defines a human being’s relationship to reality.
“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“Because," said the swallow man. "A friend is not someone to whom you give the things you need when the world is at war. A friend is someone to whom you give the things that you need when the world is at peace.”
― Anna and the Swallow Man
― Anna and the Swallow Man
“The only way to imagine the sound of that sort of screaming is to think of it as the sound produced when the universe rips itself open to let Death come through”
― Anna and the Swallow Man
― Anna and the Swallow Man
“To keep yourself from becoming an instrument of death, you kill?”
― Anna and the Swallow Man
― Anna and the Swallow Man
“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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