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As dramatic seas of light went, it was fine, but light is meant to illuminate something, and having driven through what this particularly dramatic sea of light was illuminating they didn’t think much of it.
“The world has given me a good life since then, I won't deny it, but sometimes I hate the world, anyway. Dick Cheney, that apologist for water boarding and for too long chief preacher in the Holy Church of Whatever it Takes, got a brand-new heart while I was writing this - how about that? He lives on; other people have died.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
“I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
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