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Martin Amis
“Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after.”
Martin Amis, House of Meetings

Albert Camus
“Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.”
Albert Camus, The Rebel

Martin Amis
“There are many accounts, uniformly incomplete, of what it is like to die slowly. But there is no information at all about what it is like to die suddenly and violently. We are being gentle when we describe such deaths as instant. 'The passengers died instantly.' Did they? It may be that some people can do it, can die instantly. The very old, because the vital powers are weak; the very young, because there is no great accretion of experience needing to be scattered. Muhammad Atta was 33. As for him (and perhaps this is true even in cases of vaporisation; perhaps this was true even for the wall-shadows of Japan), it took much longer than an instant. By the time the last second arrived, the first second seemed as far away as childhood...Even as his flesh fried and his blood boiled, there was life, kissing its fingertips. Then it echoed out, and ended.”
Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

Chuck Palahniuk
“You have to give up! you have to give up!
You have to realize that someday you will die,
Until you know that, you are useless!”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Jack Kerouac
“I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn.”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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