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“I am, indeed, pure Frog, but at the same time I am a thing that stands for a world of un-Frog.”
― After the Quake
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“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”
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― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
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“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
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