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“In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.”
― Revolutionary Road
― Revolutionary Road
“There is no such thing as just enough money. Only two measures: No Money and Not Enough Money.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption. You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off of pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and you can too. You'll bear it because there isn't any choice--except to go to pieces. . . It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens. Then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.”
― A Death in the Family
― A Death in the Family
“You're crossing the ocean on a wooden ship. One of the boards rots, so you replace it with another that you've stored on your hold. It is still the same ship? Most people will agree that it is. But what if, bit by bit, as you make your journey, your ships sustains more and more damage, so that by the time you reach your destination, you have substituted each piece with its counterpart and not a single piece remains unreplaced. Now is it the same ship? Why or why not? How much of a thing is its pattern and how much its physical material? I was fascinated by the question of wether and how long you could remain the same person after casting off part of your body or, for that matter, after casting part of your history, part of your personality, part of your life.”
― My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
― My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
“They weren't penitent over what they'd attempted; their sorrow reached to the limits of their bodies and no further, all their anguish was in their skin.”
― The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
― The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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