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“Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.”
― The Chocolate War
― The Chocolate War
“Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go — "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution. Don't think about that too long, or BLOOD will shoot out your NOSE!”
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“He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.”
― The Chocolate War
― The Chocolate War
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