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This book blew my mind way back when. Tremendous insight. In spite of it's shortcomings, I loved some aspects of the American class system of the time. In today's throw-away culture, class has been supplanted with wealth. The word "class" has been re
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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Eleonora
― Eleonora
“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
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“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
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“Life was a road, and if departed from at a tangent, the longer for it. And a long road was a long life - a case where to travel was better than to arrive, the point of arrival being, after all, always the same: death.”
― Death and the Penguin
― Death and the Penguin
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
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