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“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on the top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”
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“His very regard for truth melts at last into a perversion of truth.”
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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984
“The left one's the hospital, the right one's death. The right one steals your life while the left steals your breath. These hands are bad juju and the bad boogaloo, they're the teeth of the demon as he slides down the flue.”
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500 Essential Graphic Novels
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A group dedicated to the enjoyment of great writing, not to analysis, not to eloquence, but to the joy of reading words well put on paper
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