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“Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.”
― The Gun Seller
― The Gun Seller
“I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me. ”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
“Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
“Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.”
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“I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture.
It could rain in a room this big.”
― The Gun Seller
It could rain in a room this big.”
― The Gun Seller
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Ray’s 2025 Year in Books
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