devastating war only to find themselves caught up in a decade, the fifties, marked by conformity and repression. Things
“The seven billion people on the plane don't give a fuck what you want. They want you to program code for cool video games, they want you hot young girls to do porn, and they want you guys to like go build engineering and other stuff to make their lives easier. And they want food... and they want it fast.”
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“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...”
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“What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it. It smells like death.
—Big Daddy”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
—Big Daddy”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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