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“So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“I trust that you have a good purpose for your ignorance”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop”
― Moon Over Soho
― Moon Over Soho
“You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“There is something unique about the size, and shape, and feel of a real physical book, and there is a real discovery about running your eye along a line of books and picking one out because it somehow LOOKS right.”
― Rite of Passage
― Rite of Passage
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