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“Are you in pain?” “In my head.” “You have a headache?” “No. It’s not aching like other people’s. It’s full . . . just full, and it’s cracking up all by itself, in the dark, like an old washbasin.
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Terry Pratchett
“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

Arundhati Roy
“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
Arundhati Roy

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“And yet it is within the powers of a boring book to bore even the mind of God, as God well knows.”
Selina Meyer, A Woman First: First Woman: A Memoir

Samuel Beckett
“That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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