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“We're a family that takes its home entertainment very seriously.”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
“The really desolate areas can get pretty crowded, of course, sometimes, so it's good to get there early, get as much wandering as you can in before noon.”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
“Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days”
― Auto-da-Fé
― Auto-da-Fé
“Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.”
― Wise Blood
― Wise Blood
“Permanence has been swept aside by the rapidity of empty images. The pantheon, we discover to our astonishment, is the doghouse of the burning asylum... We think our brain is a marble mausoleum, when in fact it's a house made of cardboard boxes, a shack stranded between an empty field and an endless dusk.”
― The Insufferable Gaucho
― The Insufferable Gaucho
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