“I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea.”
― The Persistence of Vision
― The Persistence of Vision
“He said: When they called me up and said the cryo project was over she looked at me and she just said, There they go, John.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“She might be you, kiddie.”
“What if I don’t like me?” she said.
But Pyrrha didn’t seem to understand.
“Well, you’ll probably start visiting clubs and trying to hit on the dancers, and going from relationship to relationship not really being able to commit.”
― Nona the Ninth
“What if I don’t like me?” she said.
But Pyrrha didn’t seem to understand.
“Well, you’ll probably start visiting clubs and trying to hit on the dancers, and going from relationship to relationship not really being able to commit.”
― Nona the Ninth
“J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.”
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“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
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