Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
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Context: My face looked like it had been jammed into the spokes of a speeding Harley, and the only thing keeping me awake was the spastic pain of a broken rib. It had been a bad trip... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back to San Francisco, I tried to compose a fitting epitaph. I wanted something original, but there was no escaping the echo of Mistah Kurtz' final words from the heart of darkness: "The horror! The horror!... Exterminate all the brutes!"
