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“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”
― Long Day’s Journey into Night
― Long Day’s Journey into Night
“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
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“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”
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“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
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