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All three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labeled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient.
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He remembered being here with Clark at three or four sometimes five in the morning, during what seemed at the time like adulthood and seemed in retrospect like a dream.
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mornings: he liked to read a novel while he ate breakfast. It was possibly the most civilized habit Clark had ever encountered.
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A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night
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tattooed on Kirsten's arm, "Survival is insufficient," is from Star Trek: Voyager, episode 122, which aired for the first time in September 1999 and was written by Ronald D. Moore."
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She hasn't smoked in a while, managed to convince herself that smoking is disgusting, but it's a pleasure, actually, more of a pleasure than she remembered. The lit end flares in the darkness when she inhales. She likes Hollywood best at night, in the quiet, when it's all dark leaves and shadows and night-blooming flowers, the edges softened, gently lit streets curving up into the hills.
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The lit end flares in the darkness when she inhales. She likes Hollywood best at night, in the quiet, when it's all dark leaves and shadows and night-blooming flowers, the edges softened, gently lit streets curving up into the hills.
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All those people," Clark said to Imaginary Robert, but Imaginary Robert didn't reply."
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He stared at his crown and ran through a secret list of everything that was good.
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Dr. Eleven: What was it like for you, at the end? Captain Lonagan: It was exactly like waking up from a dream.
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Survival is insufficient,
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Because survival is insufficient
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His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in the greatest dramas. Someone has to remember them.
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had been installed on top of each cab for the drivers. The cabs were stripped of everything that added excess weight but left otherwise intact, with doors that closed and windows of difficult-to-break automobile glass,
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Not merely pretty, he decides. She is actually beautiful, but it's a subtle kind of beauty that takes some time to make itself apparent.
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So we ask them who they are, and their leader smiles at me and says, 'We are the light.'
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And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world.
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Montreal was less than two inches to the north.
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They are always waiting, the people of the Undersea. They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin. Miranda
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THERE WAS A MOMENT ON EARTH, improbable in retrospect and actually briefer than a moment in the span of human history, more like the blink of an eye, when it was possible to make a living solely by photographing and interviewing famous people.
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Emily St. John Mandel |
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It was beginning to dawn on her that she had traveled so long, so perfectly, that it was difficult to conceive of another kind of life. It was difficult to imagine stopping, but stopping as imminent.
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Die Holle ist die Abwesenheit von Menschen, nach denen man sich sehnt.
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but mostly his work just made him dislike houses. These enormous anchors that people tied to their lives.
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Theatre in Toronto. Earlier in the evening, three little girls had played a clapping game onstage as the audience entered, childhood versions of Lear's daughters, and now they'd returned as hallucinations in the mad scene. The king stumbled and reached
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Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn't remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had been cut from an automobile tire, three knives in her belt.
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on wheels of steel and wood.
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A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night She
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You look like an executive," she said to herself in the mirror, and the thought that flitted behind this was You look like a stranger. She pushed it away."
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Late in the day, she found a folded piece of paper in her pocket. She recognized August's handwriting. A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night She'd never seen his poetry before and was impossibly moved by it. "Thank you," she said when she saw him next. He nodded."
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what else might this awakening world contain?
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All of the information in the world is on the Internet, and the Internet is all around you, drifting through the air like pollen on a summer breeze.
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No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room.
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They wanted to expand the territory, so that spring they followed the Maumee River down past the ruins of Toledo, and then the Auglaize River into Ohio, and they eventually walked into the town where I lived.
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There is too much world.
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was nice to take a quick break from the end of the world--and
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Sartre: Hell is other people" in pen inside one of the caravans, and someone else had scratched out "other people" and substituted "flutes." People"
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the words clarified the problem. He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.
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She wants to believe they're lying in moonlight, but she knows the light through the window is probably mostly electric.
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All three caravans of the Travelling Symphony are labelled as such, THE TRAVELLING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient.
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The corridor was silent. It was necessary to walk very slowly, her hand on the wall. A man was curled on his side near the elevators, shivering. She wanted to speak to him, but speaking would take too much strength, so she looked at him instead--I see you, I see you--and hoped this was enough.
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None of the older Symphony members knew much about science, which was frankly maddening given how much time these people had had to look things up on the Internet before the world ended.
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She had been overtipping for as long as she'd had money. These small compensations for how fortunate she'd been.
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Miranda is a person with very few certainties, but one of them is that only the dishonourable leave when things get difficult.
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They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin. Miranda
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