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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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Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because…
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I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.
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Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still…
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Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the…
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When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will…
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Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending…
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In the name of God, the merciful, and the compassionate! Say: I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of Mankind,The King…
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