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“Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.”
― We
― We
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.”
― A Ring of Endless Light
― A Ring of Endless Light
“I did not know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.”
― A Separate Peace
― A Separate Peace
“The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?”
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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