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Peter Pan

“The last thing he ever said to me was, ‘Just always be waiting for me’”

J. M. Barrie

Goodbye to Berlin

“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”

Christopher Isherwood

The Great Gatsby

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Antony and Cleopatra

“Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows’ bent”

William Shakespeare

The Sun Also Rises

“I can’t stand to think that my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”

Ernest Hemingway

The Sirens of Titan

“love whoever is around to be loved.”

Kurt Vonnegut

Macbeth

“full of scorpions is my mind”

William Shakespeare

The Evenings

“Calamities, pains and horrors may come. But I live.”

Gerard Reve

Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”

Zora Neale Hurston

Prater Violet

“Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other, and had clasped hands.”

Christopher Isherwood

The Magnificent Ambersons

“the things that we have and that we think are so solid — they’re like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into.”

Booth Tarkington

Down There on a Visit

“But now I knew that I didn’t belong here, either. Or anywhere.”

Christopher Isherwood

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