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One day, a killer whale was trying to get back to his house and he gets sucked up by the tide, gets stranded. I was from the Killer Whale Clan. There is a grizzly bear by him and a bunch of wolves also nearby. The grizzly was protecting the
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“I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.”
― How I Live Now
― How I Live Now
“If Mr. Fantastic and Professor X had a baby, there would be tons of questions, but also it would be Abraham Lincoln.”
― How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
― How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
“What can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ultimately, in the hands of those great gentlemen at the hub of this world who employ our services. What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one’s life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
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