Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 391)
“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
Original: (99) Rahim Khan
Variant: It was Homaira and me against the world.... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 112-113
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017)
Flash Crowd, section 7, in Three Trips in Time and Space (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg, p. 65
Source: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 5
Context: Then I fell sick, I was delirious, driven mad by fear, they said at the hospital. Maybe so. The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.
“Sex, drugs, and image is just enough to get you by in the real world”
Dearest Helpless
Song lyrics, Neon Ballroom (1999)
“I always have a problem liking things I'm told I should like.”
Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
