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“People have been taught to look for themselves in books — you always hear people saying this: 'I love this book, this character is just like me.' People have been taught to think of a book as a mirror, instead of a door, or a window. A way out.”
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“Nothing really hurts you except people and old-age deterioration of the cells. And since people can’t do anything to curb the cell thing, they really don’t seem to serve much of a useful function at all.”
― Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake
― Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake
“Sometimes you read something and a thought that was floating around in your veins organizes itself into the sentence that reflects it. This might also be a form of dreaming.”
― Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
― Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
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― La Possession Du Monde
― La Possession Du Monde
“If you break an arm or a leg it takes months for it to really heal, and years for it to be the same again. So you can imagine the problems with a broken mind.”
― Self-Portrait
― Self-Portrait
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