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“Even Nothing cannot last forever.”

-Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“She was very clever. She told the best lie of all – the truth.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags belief, choice, people, perception, short

“Everything significant started insignificantly.”

-MJ Demarco, Unscripted
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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

-Stephen King, The Gunslinger
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“Time’s the thief of memory.”

-Stephen King, The Gunslinger
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“Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”

-Stephen King, The Gunslinger
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“Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?”

-Stephen King, The Gunslinger
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“The mystery of the universe is not time but size.”

-Stephen King, The Gunslinger
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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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“Life is wasted on the living.”

-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

-George Orwell, 1984
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“One touches and, in the act of touching, one’s touched.”

-Aldous Huxley, Island
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“Science is magic that works.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
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“I don’t want to die without any scars.”

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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“There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.”

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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