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“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
(
Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville
, May 16, 1767)”
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Voltaire
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“When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.”
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Ellen Hopkins,
Glass
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“Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.”
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Christopher Moore,
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
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#4
“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”
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Jeffrey Eugenides,
Middlesex
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#5
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
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J.R.R. Tolkien,
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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#6
“What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.”
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Jeff Lindsay,
Dearly Devoted Dexter
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#7
“Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work. ”
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Jeff Lindsay
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#8
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group.
They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?”
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Michael Moore
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#9
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
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Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey
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#10
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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Albert Einstein
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#11
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
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Stephen Chbosky,
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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#12
“Go to hell, I'm reading!”
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Archie Goodwin
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#13
“Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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William Goldman,
The Princess Bride
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