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The Butterfly

by James M. Cain

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The Möbius Book

by Catherine Lacey (Goodreads Author)

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“He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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“All of this like some ancient anointing. So be it. Evoke the forms. Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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“Listen--God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.
~pages 286-287”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.”
― Terry Prachett talking about Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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“Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the solar system of stars. With the Model T, part of the concept of private property disappeared. Pliers ceased to be privately owned and a tire pump belonged to the last man who had picked it up. Most of the babies of the period were conceived in Model T Fords and not a few were born in them. The theory of the Anglo Saxon home became so warped that it never quite recovered.”
― John Steinbeck

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