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Small man, great traveling doom—both weigh the same when the scale is death.
Now and Forever (2007)
Thus they and theirs, and we and ours will shadow-show eternity, two films projected to opposite screens and nothing and nothing and nothing in between.
Now and Forever (2007)
News junkies love to read about others misery.
Now and Forever (2007)
“No!” someone else cried, and a dozen others whispered, “No!”
“That’s not possible,” someone said.
“Anything,” said Cardiff, quietly, “in government, is possible.”
Now and Forever (2007)
“Ain’t there a real fine smell?” said the taxi driver. “Just delivered five dozen loaves!”
“That,” said the young man, “is the perfume of Eden on the first morn.”
Now and Forever (2007)
Cardiff read these words: HOPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY. And in small letters beneath that: KNOW HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE.
Now and Forever (2007)
“I suspect,” said Elias Culpepper, “you are in need of a drink.”
“Two,” said Cardiff, “would be fine.”
Now and Forever (2007)
On my world, such comets are known as pilgrim visitors, far-traveling specters, haunters of the feast. You see? Our history has as much romantic nonsense as yours.
Now and Forever (2007)
We poisoned it with laughter. All around within it we rose, we fell, we rose again, mystified by Fate, hysterical with chance. We fired our laughs like cannons at its heart!
Now and Forever (2007)