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The Sound of Things Falling

by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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“When you stop growing you start dying.”
― William S. Burroughs, Junky

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“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: lie, people, society

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“There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.”
― William S. Burroughs

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“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

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“You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.”
― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals

tags: cats, friends, friendship

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