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You can fool a lot of yourself but you can’t fool the soul. That worrier.
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“I had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain. Maybe we needed to give shape to the opaque, deep-down pain that evades both sense and senses.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“What is terrifying, I think, about the World Government is not that the world is held under an iron fist, but that the world is sand scooped up in a sieve. The people running it have no more idea than us why there are lights in the sky above the Arby's or why there are ghost cars. Terrifying, right? I think the grand conspiracy of our world is just an argument between idiots.”
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“I am not scared of bad people, of wicked evildoers, of monsters and creatures of the night. The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness. The ones who know how to behave, and what their neighbors need to do to be on the side of the good.”
― Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
― Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
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Welcome to the Riverton Branch Library, Riverton Wyoming. If you are in the area come visit us Monday-Thursday from 10am-7pm and Friday-Saturday from ...more
Welcome to the Riverton Branch Library, Riverton Wyoming. If you are in the area come visit us Monday-Thursday from 10am-7pm and Friday-Saturday from ...more
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