Stoic Slowik @randomreadings
Writer, pessimist, book-eater. Serving up literary morsels you might remember... Chicago, IL Joined October 2009-
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"It was venison, the first meat he had ever eaten. It tasted like death. He threw it up." Arcadia, by Lauren Groff
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"You may fancy yourself safe, and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky..." tinyurl.com/bvode9p
"Even if ... the children don't die... At the very best they'll simply be decent people." tinyurl.com/c3s7bqw
"War was their nature, and war is always keen to come again." Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel
"... knew their sorcery, knew their mysteries, and he knew the secret heart of this girl he'd never even spoken to." tinyurl.com/bu3ml9r
"...far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than... Satan." tinyurl.com/ahv7hfz
"The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned..." tinyurl.com/ar6ez53
"The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal...what was left for you, poor human murderers, to do?" tinyurl.com/bqdl4tr
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. An odd moment in the afternoon." Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
"Here, at war, a peaceful life, if it befell someone, seemed eternal." tinyurl.com/99umj6e
"Scepter and crown / Must tumble down / And in the dust be equal made / With the poor crooked scythe and spade." tinyurl.com/9pypb9t
"Gravestones mostly flake away after a couple of centuries. Even death sort of dies." Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell
"... the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with His corruption..." tinyurl.com/9ce786t
"Therefore, propagators violate any conceivable system of morality and ethics because they are guilty of doing harm..." tinyurl.com/8okcrz8
"The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma..." tinyurl.com/9tfubl2
"Destruction is merely the reverse of creation and change, disorder is another form of order..." tinyurl.com/8l9w6va
"Dawn in Warsaw would sometimes reveal bodies, glazed with ice, dead where they'd sat down to rest..." tinyurl.com/8k9tx5e
"Books for the general reader are always ill-smelling books, the odour of paltry people clings to them..." tinyurl.com/6nqoxlz
"At the last moment... the child was told that his life would be spared if he told the truth..." tinyurl.com/74pt8cy
"Hope is an instinct only the reasoning human mind can kill. An animal never knows despair." The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
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