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“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.”
― Wonder Boys
― Wonder Boys
“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”
― Post Office
― Post Office
“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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