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“It is true, I thought. I am living a life.”
― The Sisters Brothers
― The Sisters Brothers
“The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
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“You know the funny thing about the end of the world, my old friend? We always talk about it as if it hasn’t happened already. Because of course the world has ended many times. And when it ends for some people, other people report it in the papers or on TV as a new beginning.”
― The River of No Return
― The River of No Return
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