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Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming
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“People never notice anything.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if not alone then by means of the mood organ. But when you get that depressed you don't care. Apathy, because you've lost a sense of worth. It doesn't matter whether you feel better because you have no worth.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“Cleveland was “the kind of man who would rather do something badly for himself than to have somebody else do it well.”
― The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
― The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
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