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Would the children born under a solid sky scream if they saw the ground beneath their feet?
Ted Chiang • Stories of Your Life and Others
Tough old world, baby. If you’re not bolted together tightly, you’re gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.
Stephen King • The Shining
This is this money and here is how we’re spending it and if you want to be able to make those kinds of decisions, you should make this kind of money. It was never said. It was just beyond what was said, and he knew (and she had to know) that he wouldn’t be able to bear to hear it actually voiced, and so he tiptoed to the edge but never plunged into
... See moreTaffy Brodesser-Akner • Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel
As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They were doing their best to live like people invented i
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