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'The common man will win his fight sooner or later, but I want it to be sooner and not later'

'Heaven is as great a flop as Utopia - though Hell occupies a respectable place in literature'

'He is pouring his immortal spirit down the drain'

'For man only stays human by preserving large patches of simplicity in his life'

'And most of us still have a lingering belief that every choice, even every political choice, is between good and evil, and that if a thing is necessary it is also right. We should, I think, get rid of this belief'

'Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination'

'Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion'

'You forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite'

'To squash the what-if'

'Note to self: no more shitting on Ohio'

'Or even that Ohio exists—has anyone even heard of it?'

'The best way to hide a lie is in plain sight'

'Have you any idea how hard it was to find twelve three-legged dogs?'

'The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable'

'Sick with guilt thinking: then don’t think'

'I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them'

'You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity'

'Our proverbs want rewriting. They were made in winter, and it is summer now'

'Companionable silences of friendship. They will go on facing side by side the awful shocks of life'

'But you must not think I don't like good music. I adore it, but I am afraid of it. It makes me too romantic'

'Everything lethally intermixed, everything breaching its boundaries, nothing staying in its right place'

"Unknown youth reclining"

'Now he thinks he probably has been too hard in himself, which isn’t at all what his dad would have wanted'

'Life perfect and everlasting until the end of the song'

'And what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?'