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“Why untidy hair and an inability to make oneself understood should be the hall-mark of genius I have never been able to understand.”
― A City of Bells
― A City of Bells
“It was usual for Gervas Leigh to lose everything not actually attached to his person by a string, the habit of dissociation from material things being the first to be acquired by men of saintly character.”
― Towers in the Mist
― Towers in the Mist
“This day will go down in history!' said Jones.
'Every day goes down in history,' said the boss.”
― Mother Night
'Every day goes down in history,' said the boss.”
― Mother Night
“She was so sure, so completely certain, as she entered any room, of her power, of her contribution to the sum of beauty in the world. And yet she had always been vulnerable too, wounded by the smallest slight, and turned into a pathetic self-doubting creature by such a nothing as a kind word left unsaid, or a sum she could not add.”
― Viper Wine
― Viper Wine
“You can argue for hours about the Apollonian and the Dionysian, but the dark wins every time so fuck the Beatles, just fuck 'em, perspective-wise.”
― John Henry Days
― John Henry Days
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