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Reviewing this near the end of Ganymede (10/15 stories) because *even* if what comes next is Richard Osman-levels of shit (it won't be) it won't detract from an amazing series.I knew she wrote Don't Look Now, and was vaguely aware she wrote The Birds ...more "
Motherthing
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You’re a good yogurt person who deserves everything you want in life.
Wonderful book that turns the screw until it's amazing denouement.
“...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.'
What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'
Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'
Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.”
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“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”
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“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
― Against a Dark Background
― Against a Dark Background
“-Put on the lights there, now. Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos...”
― J R
― J R
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