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“If flying-saucer creatures or angels or whatever were to come here in a hundred years, say, and find us gone like the dinosaurs, what might be a good message for humanity to leave for them, maybe carved in great big letters on a Grand Canyon wall? Here is this old poop's suggestion: WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SAVED OURSELVES, BUT WERE TOO DAMNED LAZY TO TRY VERY HARD...”
― Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage
― Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage
“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
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“Had been bulky men, quietly content, who, in our first youth, had come to grasp our own unremarkableness and had, cheerfully (as if bemusedly accepting a heavy burden), shifted our life’s focus; if we would not be great, we would be useful.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
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