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“...I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Children inherit their parents' madness.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“What did you expect?” he murmured. “Time passes.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan
angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant eyes hallucinating Arkansas
and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes
on the windows of the skull,”
― Howl and Other Poems
angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant eyes hallucinating Arkansas
and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes
on the windows of the skull,”
― Howl and Other Poems
“As a matter of simple logic, there's no difference at all, that I can see, between the man who's greedy for material treasure —or even intellectual treasure — and the man who's greedy for spiritual treasure. As you say, treasure's treasure, God damn it, and it seems to me that ninety percent of all the world-hating saints in history were just as acquisitive and unattractive, basically, as the rest of us are.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
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