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“I cannot find Norm’s essence. It is a problem I’ve never encountered as a ghost, and I need to truly become him to finish the book. It has always been my great gift, the ability to find a person’s essence. But Norm evades me. It must be because I hate him with such intensity.”
― Based on a True Story
― Based on a True Story
“I drank a handle of bourbon that night, alone and in glory.”
― Based on a True Story
― Based on a True Story
“That’s where I found him, making a living underneath the Queensboro Bridge, jerking off punks for fifteen dollars a man.”
― Based on a True Story
― Based on a True Story
“I hate when people say “touché” after you say something funny. I don’t know what it means, but I know that I hate it.”
― Based on a True Story
― Based on a True Story
“This first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence. It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings; but in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, whoso took such things into account was a fool, and in so far as he observed them he would fail to prosper.”
― The Call of the Wild
― The Call of the Wild
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