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Authority (Southern Reach #2)

by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author)

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Works of Edgar Allan Poe (The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes, #2)

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Derek’s Quotes

“The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control

tags: delusions, memory, nostalgia, truth

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“The first six million years had been all fun and games.”
― Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns

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“If you're sad today, just remember the world is over 4 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.”
― Simon Pegg

tags: david-bowie

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“The fact they could check becomes the prophecy they must believe.”
― Nicola Griffith, Hild

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“John Le Carre said that authenticity is less important than plausibility.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Wolf and Iron

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