“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
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“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
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