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    Jarod Kintz
    “I once watched several criminals engage in an organized argument, while an audience of supporters cheered them on, but I was so disgusted that I had to turn off the political debate.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
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    Suki Michelle
    “Oh that voice, so sweet. Rich, like the taste of vanilla ice cream, vowels like flute music, warm caramel consonants. She could float in that voice forever and not miss a thing.”
    ― Suki Michelle, The Apocalypse Gene
    tags: dystopia, urban-fantasy, ya
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    Veronica Roth
    “Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: divergent, dystopia, thinking
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    “I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far. They're incinerating culture, the beauty of diversity. The new citizens of our world will be reduced to nothing but numbers, easily interchangeable, easily removable, easily destroyed for disobedience.

    We have lost our humanity.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: dystopia, humanity, juliette, reestablishment
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    Mira Grant
    “...they come to us, these restless dead,
    Shrouds woven from the words of men,
    With trumpets sounding overhead
    (The walls of hope have grown so thin
    And all our vaunted innocence
    Has withered in this endless frost)
    That promise little recompense
    For all we risk, for all we've lost...”
    ― Mira Grant, Feed
    tags: dystopia, poetry, zombies
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    “Homo sapiens! The name itself was an irony. They had not been wise at all, but incredibly stupid. Lords of the Earth with their great gray brains, their thinking minds had placed them above all other forms of life. Yet it had not been thought that compelled them to act, but emotion. From the dawn of their evolution they had killed, and conquered, and subdued. They had committed atrocities on others of their kind, ravaged the land, polluted and destroyed, left millions to starve in Third World countries, and finished it all with a nuclear holocaust. The mutants were right. Intelligent creatures did not commit genocide, or murder the environment on which they were dependent.”
    ― Louise Lawrence, Children of the Dust
    tags: dystopia, war
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    Margaret Atwood
    “How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
    Creation's mighty seed -
    For Man has broke the Fellowship
    With murder, lust, and greed.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: dystopia, fellowship, maddaddam-trilogy, margaret-atwood, ren, the-year-of-the-flood, toby, when-adam-first
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  • #8
    George Orwell
    “Nothing exists except through human consciousness”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, consciousness, dystopia, fiction, george-orwell, human
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    E.M. Forster
    “But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.”
    ― E. M. Forster
    tags: dystopia
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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
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    Rick Riordan
    “It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: humanity, humans, mankind, reality
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: enthralled, obsession, slavery
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    Albert Camus
    “He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
    tags: boredom, complication, death, slavery, war
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    John Dryden
    “…So when the last and dreadful hour
    This crumbling pageant shall devour,
    The trumpet shall be heard on high,
    The dead shall live, the living die,
    And Music shall untune the sky”
    ― John Dryden, The Major Works
    tags: apocalypse
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: change, growth, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, life-lessons
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: science, science-fiction
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  • #23
    “The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia,
    Number Two in England,
    And Number Three in Kenya.
    I am Number Four.
    I am next..."
    - I AM NUMBER FOUR”
    ― Pittacus Lore
    tags: science-fiction
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    D. Harlan Wilson
    “Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.”
    ― D. Harlan Wilson, The Kyoto Man
    tags: cultural-theory, fantasy, horror, humor, literary, postmodern, science-fiction
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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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  • #29
    “One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
    ― Tim Burton
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  • #30
    Jessamyn West
    “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
    ― Jessamyn West
    tags: books, on-fiction, reality, truth
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