“Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit. I myself was confounded as shit...”
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“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. ”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.
Information is control.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
Information is control.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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