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The distance I experienced in my first year of law school made me feel lost. Proximity to the condemned, to people unfairly judged; that was what guided me back to something that felt like home.
“Falsehood flies,” observed Jonathan Swift, “and the truth comes limping after it.”
― Fascism: A Warning
― Fascism: A Warning
“Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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