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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away.

[–] Skyraptor7 2 points 1 year ago

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present. Honorable Schoolboy, John Le Carre

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have no idea what the name of the book is, I read it 25 years ago, but a character in it was talking about life and either them or another chatacter eventually broke it down to

ride the waves

I took it as there's ups and downs. That's ok, just ride the waves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fear is the mind killer…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Right now?

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

Yeah. It's going good.