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This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.David Foster Wallace
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We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.David Foster Wallace
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Memories are truths we have chosen.C.E. OGrady
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The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.Michael Chabon
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While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early morning, she was aware that at the back of her mind there was another thought that was not at all stale, but so fresh that it was nearly a feeling, with all a feeling's delicious power to kill thought.Stella Gibbons
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Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;Frederick Douglass