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Kim’s Quotes

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, escape, reading

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“What have you done when you have bested a fool?”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

tags: fools

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“Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.”
― Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

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“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

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“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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