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“Blasted spam pigeons!”
― Hark! A Vagrant
― Hark! A Vagrant
“On The Great Gatsby: Fifteen-year-olds can really get behind an essay on what green light means, which is good, because they sure as heck won't relate to any of the characters, who are all huge jerks with enough money to be wasted most of the time on top of being miserable.”
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“Everything's ruined, our lives around our lands are ruined, our water, the air, everything.
Their almighty dollar comes first. That's pretty sad. You can't eat money.
At the cost of our lives-as long as they get their money. They don't care how many of us they kill off.”
― Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Their almighty dollar comes first. That's pretty sad. You can't eat money.
At the cost of our lives-as long as they get their money. They don't care how many of us they kill off.”
― Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
“But you can't say no to a birthday present, so she took the little pony to her room, where it ate things it shouldn't have, and farted too much.”
― The Princess and the Pony
― The Princess and the Pony
“I learn that I can have opportunity or I can have home. I cannot have both, and either will always hurt.”
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“The Nautilus was actually attacked by a 'poulpe,' which is an octopus, but the description sounds something like a squid, and it's usually translated as 'squid.' Does that make a difference? If a creature from the depths were attacking your ship, would you really care if it was an octopus or a squid, or would you just pull the hatch down over your head and try to remember how to pray? There are no atheists in foxholes, or in submarines beset by many-legged monsters.”
― Hark! A Vagrant
― Hark! A Vagrant
“...[S]he wanted me to talk about all the harassment and how shitty it all is and how the men are awful. It felt tabloid-y.
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I just felt like her story wasn't my story. It was already written before she called.
She had already made up her mind and wanted me to corroborate. But I...
I don't think people like her believe that the men they know wouldn't be any different.
They don't think that the loneliness and homesickness and boredom and lack of women around would affect their brother or dad or husband the same way-
I mean, why would they? They don't think about it at all. They never have to.”
― Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
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I just felt like her story wasn't my story. It was already written before she called.
She had already made up her mind and wanted me to corroborate. But I...
I don't think people like her believe that the men they know wouldn't be any different.
They don't think that the loneliness and homesickness and boredom and lack of women around would affect their brother or dad or husband the same way-
I mean, why would they? They don't think about it at all. They never have to.”
― Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
