January 2012
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Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to...
– Ghostwritten (David Mitchell)
December 2011
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Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a...
– Cold Turkey (Kurt Vonnegut)
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How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
– Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
– Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami)
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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
– David Mitchell
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Still, the one who best understands the significance of light is not the...
– The Face of Another (Kōbō Abe)
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody...
– Hocus Pocus (Kurt Vonnegut)
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...
– The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You (Neil Gaiman)
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Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions...
– Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami)
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Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It’s never...
– Black Swan Green (David Mitchell)
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Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick...
– The Woman in the Dunes (Kōbō Abe)
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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make...
– Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
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That is my principal objection to life, I think: It’s too easy, when...
– Deadeye Dick (Kurt Vonnegut)
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable....
– The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones (Neil Gaiman)
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A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
– Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
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We must be careful about what we pretend to be.
– Mother Night (Kurt Vonnegut)
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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at...
– The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones (Neil Gaiman)
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Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and...
– David Mitchell
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...
– Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...
– A Man Without A Country (Kurt Vonnegut)
I added an incredibly large amount of Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami, Kobo Abe, Neil Gaiman, and David Mitchell quotes to my queue for one month’s time. Be prepared for surrealist authors’ spew.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time....
– Dream For An Insomiac