#parker

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

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#also #always #being #cyberspace #i

If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul. ↗

— Yann Martel

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#peter-parker #yann-martel #life

Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone. ↗

— Courtney Summers

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#illusion