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“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“As Shakespeare says, if you’re going to do a thing you might just as well pop right at it and get it over.”
― Very Good, Jeeves!
― Very Good, Jeeves!
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
―
―
“this is the light of autumn; it has turned
on us.
Surely it is a privilege to approach the
end
still believing in something.”
― October
on us.
Surely it is a privilege to approach the
end
still believing in something.”
― October
“But what in this world is perfect? I bend closer and see how this one is clearly lopsided— and that one wears an orange blight— and this one is a glossy cheek half nibbled away— and that one is a slumped purse full of its own unstoppable decay. Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled— to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery. I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing— that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.”
― House of Light
― House of Light
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