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“But those rich town ladies can change their minds. Poor folks cant.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“So that’s how you came to imagine yourself a queen—because you were the Emperor’s hangman. I see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“You may remember the old question, the one that’s supposed to define your outlook on life when you answer it. For Byron Hadley the answer would always be half empty, the glass is half empty. Forever and ever, amen. If you gave him a cool drink of apple cider, he’d think about vinegar. If you told him his wife had always been faithful to him, he’d tell you it was because she was so damn ugly.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“What it comes down to, Red, is some people refuse to get their hands dirty at all. That’s called sainthood, and the pigeons land on your shoulders and crap all over your shirt.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“There was a goofy sort of feeling that if the Dead Sox could come to life, then maybe anybody could do it.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“But it isn’t just a piece of paper that makes a man. And it isn’t just prison that breaks one, either.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“When you take away a man’s freedom and teach him to live in a cell, he seems to lose his ability to think in dimensions.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The name is Clem Williamson Snide. I am a private asshole.”
― William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night

“Don Juan says anyone who always looks like the same person isn't a person. He is a person impersonator.”
― William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night

“Do not be in a hurry to dispose of old enemies. What would you do without them?”
― William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night

“»Du sagst Sie zu mir, verstanden!«, erklärte er.
»Sie?«, fragte das Sams verblüfft. »Bist du denn eine Frau?«
»Lümmel«, schimpfte Herr Groll. »Mich als Frau zu bezeichnen, so
eine Frechheit!«
»Ist eine Frau denn etwas Schlimmes?«, fragte das Sams.
»Nein, natürlich nicht«, lenkte Herr Groll ein.
»Warum schimpfst du dann?«, fragte das Sams.
»Sie!«, verbesserte Herr Groll aufgebracht.
»Sie schimpft?«, fragte das Sams und schaute sich um. »Ich kann
sie gar nicht sehen.«
»Wen?«
»Die Frau, die schimpft.«
»Wer hat denn was von einer Frau gesagt?«
»Du«, erklärte das Sams.
»Sie!«, verbesserte Herr Groll erregt.
»Schon wieder sie. Das scheint aber eine freche Frau zu sein.
Überall mischt sie sich ein.«
»Hör jetzt endlich auf, von deiner Frau zu faseln«, schrie Herr Groll.
»Das ist nicht meine Frau«, sagte das Sams. »Ich bin nicht
verheiratet. Ich bin viel zu jung, um ...«
»Ruhe!«, brüllte der Studienrat dazwischen.
»Meinst du mich?«, fragte das Sams.
»Sie!«, verbesserte Herr Groll gereizt.
»Ach so, die Frau«, sagte das Sams verstehend.”
― Paul Maar, Eine Woche voller Samstage / Am Samstag kam das Sams zurück

“Every time you find an answer you find six questions under it, like leprechauns under a toadstool.”
― William S. Burroughs

“sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Guilt is a wonderful motivator.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) [Audiobook] Publisher: Penguin Audio; Unabridged edition

“Because he'd scared me, I was mad at him. Illogical, but it was better to be mad than scared.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Dolph didn't ask for your opinion unless he was prepared to act upon it. He was a good boss.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“I think if all short people could vote, the word «cute» would be stricken from the English language.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Scared would be better than stupid.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Some people have a real talent for being condescending.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Screaming was for when you didn't have anything better to do.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“There are some things that are more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror. I gave up my gun for the same reason I'd stopped for the child. There was no choice. I was one of the good guys. Good guys were self-sacrificing. It was a rule somewhere.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“The law says innocent until proven guilty, but the truth is, if you see enough pain and death, it's guilty until proven innocent.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“Nothing like near death to get you to practice.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“It seemed to Jennifer that she had sat in the cellar from the beginning of things, that never, since she could remember, had there been anything in her life but this. One day, so she was told, it would be ended. One day there would be no war.”
― Daphne du Maurier, The Loving Spirit

“I thought wryly that nobody ever wanted advice anyway: all that most people sought was ratification of their own views.”
― Mary Stewart, Wildfire at Midnight