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“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.”
― The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
― The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Literary Prizes
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