“No es que no les interesara el mundo que los rodeaba. Al contrario, tenían una implicación profunda, personal y apasionada en el mismo, pero en lugar de preguntarse: “¿Por qué estamos aquí?”, se preguntaban “¿Va llover antes de la cosecha?”.
Tal vez un filósofo habría deplorado aquella falta de ambición mental, pero tan solo si estuviera realmente seguro de dónde procedía su próxima comida.”
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Tal vez un filósofo habría deplorado aquella falta de ambición mental, pero tan solo si estuviera realmente seguro de dónde procedía su próxima comida.”
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“He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
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