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One rifle, one blanket, twenty bottles of hooch. Rifle broke." She said this last scornfully, as though disgusted at how low her maiden-value had been rated. Jack London
Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex... Gustave Flaubert
Now I’ve given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don’t care if I write a great book anymore, but just one which, whatever its flaws, will leave a record of my impossible life. Jeffrey Eugenides
Under the stars,' she repeated. 'I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to someone. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.'It was a dream,' said John quietly. 'Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'How pleasant then to be insane!'So I'm told,' said John gloomily. 'I don't know any longer. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine... F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rene Descartes quote: "At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation..."
At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions. Rene Descartes
...and the Sunday the bishop came you couldn't see Halley's Comet any more and you saw the others being confirmed and it lasted for hours because there were a lot of little girls being confirmed too and all you could hear was mumble mumble this thy child mumble mumble this thy child and you wondered if you'd be alive next time Halley's Comet came round John Dos Passos
Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole. J. R. R. Tolkien
Louis L'Amour quote: "This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last..."
This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last - Kilkenny Louis L'Amour
Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it, the dawn of the day before had been the beginning of the last light ever in the history of the world. A. Whitney Brown
At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . . Charles Dickens
Ihave a face like a washrag. I singlove songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can'tstand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the whiterefrigerator and want to scream likethe last weeping of life forever but. I am bigger than the mountains. Charles Bukowski
He had talked of getting occupation of this sort so long that he had not the face to refuse outright, but the thought of doing anything filled him with panic. At last he declined the opportunity and breathed freely. 'It would have interfered with my work,' he told Philip. 'What work?' asked Philip brutally. 'My inner life,' he answered. W. Somerset Maugham
Seeing him brought in, has, I think, saved me from losing my mind; for that I do not thank him-sanity, after all is only reason applied to human affairs, and when this reason, applied over years, has resulted in disaster, destruction, despair, misery, starvation, and rot, the mind is correct to abandon it. This decision to discard reason, I see now, is not the last but the first reasonable act; and this insanity we are taught to fear consists in nothing but responding naturally and... Gene Wolfe
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary. Susan Sontag
Stanislaw Lec quote: "Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence."
Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence. Stanislaw Lec

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