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Slum House
Roanoke Mountain
The Habit of Being
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
Flannery O’Connor
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson
Slaughterhouse-Five
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut
Stranger in a Strange Land
I’ve found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much… because it’s the only thing that’ll make it stop hurting.
Robert A. Heinlein