“Bereavement is not the truncation of married love, but one of its regular phases---like the honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully through that phase too.”
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“The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
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