A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don’t know how poorly off they are.
“That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“Amateurs obsess over strategy, Irjah had once told their class. Professionals obsess over logistics”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?”
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“The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only with the electric clocks, but the wind-up kind, too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said—and calendars.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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