

“It didn't matter anyway...he wasn't made for peace, he couldn't believe in it. Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.”
― Brighton Rock
― Brighton Rock

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
― I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
― I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.”
― Paris Spleen
― Paris Spleen

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
― Dead Poets Society
― Dead Poets Society

“And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
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