“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.”
― Starter for Ten
― Starter for Ten
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