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We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
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As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us…
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A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.
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It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
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Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.
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A society manufactures the heroes it requires.
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Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you…
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Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks…
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Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to…
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New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for…
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In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought…
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It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be…
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Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently…
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Once you put bacon in a salad, it's no longer a salad. It just becomes a game of 'find the bacon in…
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Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain…
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I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that…
— John Steinbeck
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Look at the way the walls curve,' Macey said, her gaze panning around the strangely shaped room. 'it's almost like...' 'The library,'…
— Ally Carter
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You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt…
— Andrea Gibson
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In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.
— Unknown Author
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