“Well, excuse my astonishment, but you are now officially the only person I know who owns a car.” “I bought it used. It’s no Rolls, as you’ll note once you’ve experienced the suspension, but it gets me from point A to point B quite
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“Boil the words you already know down to their bones,' Rex [Browning] says, 'and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“He should have risked more. It has taken him his whole life to accept himself, and he is surprised to understand that now that he can, he does not long for one more year, one more month: eighty-six years has been enough. In a life you accumulate so many memories, your brain constantly winnowing through them, weighing consequence, burying pain, but somehow by the time you’re this age you still end up dragging a monumental sack of memories behind you, a burden as heavy as a continent, and eventually it becomes time to take them out of the world.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“Oh, i can deal with the tragedy, it's the farce I can't handle.”
― The Promise
― The Promise
“Movies make you think civilization will end fast, like with aliens and explosions, but really it'll end slow. Ours is already ending, it's just ending too slow for people to notice.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“The premier achievement of human history, they said, the triumph of memory over the obliterating forces of destruction and erasure.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
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