Jorn Barger said:
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i may revise this dismissal when i've read the final third but from other gr reviews i expect not.how it was chosen to film makes no sense to me-- i guess 007 was so profitable they held their noses. there's some good writing but the plotting seems r ...more "
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.”
― Timequake
― Timequake
“Then they swarmed over me, hung on my arms, kicked my legs from under me, kicked consciousness out of my head. It slid like a disappearing tail light down the dark mountainside of the world.”
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“She put her hands over her ears and made a monkey face. Even then, she couldn't look ugly. She had such good bones, her skeleton would have been an ornament in any closet.”
― The Doomsters
― The Doomsters
“The smell of her hair was as clean and strange as the redheaded girl’s who sat ahead of me in senior year.”
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“Hospitals are nightmares in white.”
― Night Probe!
― Night Probe!
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