

“Driving home, I heard the explosion and thought it was a new story born. But, Adrian, it’s the same old story, whispered past the same false teeth. How can we imagine a new language when the language of the enemy keeps our dismembered tongues tied to his belt? How can we imagine a new alphabet when the old jumps off billboards down into our stomachs? Adrian, what did you say? I want to rasp into sober cryptology and say something dynamic but tonight is my laundry night. How do we imagine a new life when a pocketful of quarters weighs our possibilities down?”
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“this was the first time that he thoroughly felt and believed himself to be a knight-errant in reality and not merely in fancy, now that he saw himself treated in the same way as he had read of such knights being treated in days of yore.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote

“Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky”
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Friendships are nice. So is competence.”
― Disclosure
― Disclosure
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