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“Just because it had happened before didn’t mean it wasn’t serious. It didn’t mean he didn’t need them.”
― Fangirl
― Fangirl
“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous."
(Great Thought, February 19, 1938)”
― The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance
(Great Thought, February 19, 1938)”
― The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance
“My father looked as if I’d just gutted him, and I felt a pang of regret—but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings—it was payback for the way his choices had irrevocably damaged my own.”
― Armada
― Armada
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