Alice Sebold  - Quotes

 Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living. 

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John Updike  - Quotes

 He tries to picture how it will end, with an empty baseball field, a dark factory, and then over a brook in a dirt road, he doesn 

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Philip K. Dick  - Quotes

 The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them. 

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John Milton  - Quotes

 Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. 

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Chuck Palahniuk  - Quotes

 We're all of us haunted and haunting. 

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T.S. Eliot  - Quotes

 Da

Datta: what have we given?

My friend, blood shaking my heart

The awful daring of a moment's surrender

Which an age of prudence can never retract.
 

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Neil Gaiman  - Quotes

 Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit. 

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Elie Wiesel  - Quotes

 Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. 

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