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#1

“I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.”
― Robert Bloch, Psycho

tags: horror, psycho

280 likes

#2

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

tags: monsters

1129 likes

#3

“What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…”
― Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

tags: aids, discrimination, gay-rights, marginalization, politics

13 likes

#4

“Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

tags: addiction

37 likes

#5

“Only time(whatever that may be) will tell.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

98 likes

#6

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

4481 likes

#7

“How very American, he thought, to look at a disease as homosexual or heterosexual, as if viruses had the intelligence to choose between different inclinations of human behavior.”
― Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

19 likes

#8

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: happiness

3429 likes

#9

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Workingmen of all countries unite!”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

tags: communism, communist-revolution, politics, proletariat, ruling-classic, tremble, unite

420 likes

#10

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: prejudice, pride, vanity

5553 likes

#11

“Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

75 likes

#12

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

3854 likes

#14

“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

449 likes

#15

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7680 likes

#15

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

8024 likes

#16

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: carmilla, classic, gothic, horror, joseph-sheridan-le-fanu

398 likes

#17

“Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: death, life

175 likes

#18

“I have never been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you.”
― Sheridan le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: love, sapphic

80 likes

#19

“Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: gothic, horror, paranormal, vampires

53 likes

#20

“There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself.”
― Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

10 likes

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