“He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.”
― The Republic of Thieves
― The Republic of Thieves
“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”
― The Republic of Thieves
― The Republic of Thieves
“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
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