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“She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
― A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
― A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
“We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death”
― From the Other Shore & The Russian People and Socialism
― From the Other Shore & The Russian People and Socialism
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis
“Flannery revealed she had been working on the novel “a year and a half and will probably be two more years finishing it.” She described her writing habits in a letter dated July 13: “I must tell you how I work. I don’t have my novel outlined and I have to write to discover what I am doing.”
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories
“Besides, they have put too high a price on harmony; we can’t afford to pay so much for admission. And therefore I hasten to return my ticket. And it is my duty, if only as an honest man, to return it as far ahead of time as possible. Which is what I am doing. It’s not that I don’t accept God, Alyosha, I just most respectfully return him the ticket.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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