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The explodey stuff—I assumed it was C4 or some future equivalent—had been stuck to the bulkhead with duct tape. Yeah, they still make duct tape. And it still holds the universe together.
Amazing
“In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.”
― The Country of the Pointed Firs
― The Country of the Pointed Firs
“A man is what he has passion about. If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.”
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“It had also affected the old fishermen's hard complexions, until one fancied that when Death claimed them it could only be with the aid, not of any slender modern dart, but the good serviceable harpoon of a seventeenth century woodcut.”
― The Country of the Pointed Firs
― The Country of the Pointed Firs
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