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Quote by Joseph Heller

“Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.”

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Joseph Heller was an American novelist known for his satirical and black humor style. His novel 'Catch-22' is considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century and has had a profound impact on literature. more

“Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.”

Knows Men Needs Feels Dream Night Turns Asks Sleep Cities Wife Cry Tears Lovers Lows Female Mark Fats Obsession Ships Nurse Swings Muse Exes Nemesis Cities At Night

Book:The Information

Source: The Information

“Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.”

Laughter Terror Scream

Author:Thomas M. Disch

“My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of feeling 'a dull pain in the brain'--a physical pain, as he used to say--when he was with people who cared only for small talk.”

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Book:Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Source: Memoirs of a Revolutionist

“Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.”

Men Sometimes Whole Memories Letters I Realized Quantity Verses Advise Remarks

Author:Peter Kropotkin

“She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.”

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Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition

“He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.”

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Book:Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Source: Memoirs of a Revolutionist

“I know many lives worth living.”

Knows Worth Living Life Worth Living

Author:Mary Oliver

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