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Movies that everyone should see before 13 (116 movies items)
"Damn, wish I had seen this sooner, now I need a time machine :)"
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Big meh, made even worse for all the hype. Just terribly written with poor characters and mostly confusing. At the same time I do admit that other SF authors have basically cannibalized this book so it offers very little if anything at all new. For example, Altered Carbon basically rips 50% of this book's plot and just reforms it a little. Maybe it would have been better if I read it in 1984, all I need now is a time machine.
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Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Oh, nowadays so many conceited people go about Society pretending to be good, that I think it shows rather a sweet and modest disposition to pretend to be bad. Besides, there is this to be said. If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
You don’t know what it is to fall into the pit, to be despised, mocked, abandoned, sneered at—to be an outcast! to find the door shut against one, to have to creep in by hideous byways, afraid every moment lest the mask should be stripped from one’s face, and all the while to hear the laughter, the horrible laughter of the world, a thing more tragic than all the tears the world has ever shed. You don’t know what it is. One pays for one’s sin, and then one pays again, and all one’s life one pays.
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