Quote #2

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it, for the games that were formerly played there; the hoops for the basketball net were still in place, though the nets were gone.

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  1. I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
  2. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
  3. There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given f…
  4. Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
  5. Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
  6. I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
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