

“So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break.”
― No Exit
― No Exit

“Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.”
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“Nothing sparkly can stay.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders

“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
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