
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
Henry Hill in GoodFellas (narration)
Culture Commentary and Miscellaneous Musings

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
Henry Hill in GoodFellas (narration)

And I remembered looking back over my shoulder as we ran away, Eddie Glackin lying there alone, not a friend in sight to hold him as he bled out, and I thought what a lonely world it was for unlovable fucks like us.
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Therefore man was created single in the world to teach that for anybody who destroys a single life it is counted as if he destroyed an entire world, and for anybody who preserves a single life it is counted as if he preserved an entire world.
Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 4:9
Heinrich W. Guggenheimer, 1999-2015

As we walked arm in arm in this merry mood, wind brushed against our cheeks–a wind strong enough to lift bougainvillea blossoms off their branches. Did that mean we, too, were characters in a shojo romance?
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I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.
HAL-9000 computer to Dave