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“How awful!” said Bill. “Why do you do it?” “Oh, because it gives one such a noble feeling to suffer for one’s silhouette.
“the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death”
― The Pirates of Ersatz
― The Pirates of Ersatz
“It was a world ruled these days by the gun, the guitar, and the needle, sexier than sex, where the good right hand had become the male's primary sexual organ...”
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“Don't you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason?”
― The Kraken Wakes
― The Kraken Wakes
“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
― Among Others
― Among Others
“Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! . . .”
― The History of Mr. Polly
― The History of Mr. Polly
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