“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
― The Hotel New Hampshire
― The Hotel New Hampshire
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― 1984
― 1984
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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