“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.”
― Benediction
― Benediction
“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
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