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“The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid--what will compare with it?”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“In May, when coyotes howl beneath an unnervingly large moon, taller plants, such as spiderworts and black-eyed Susans, begin to creep over the tinier blooms, stealing their light and water. The necks of the smaller flowers break and their petals flutter away, and before long they are buried underground. This is why the Osage Indians refer to May as the time of the flower-killing moon.”
― David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

“There was one question that the judge and the prosecutors and the defense never asked the jurors but that was central to the proceedings: Would a jury of twelve white men ever punish another white man for killing an American Indian? One skeptical reporter noted, “The attitude of a pioneer cattleman toward the full-blood Indian…is fairly well recognized.” A prominent member of the Osage tribe put the matter more bluntly: “It is a question in my mind whether this jury is considering a murder case or not. The question for them to decide is whether a white man killing an Osage is murder—or merely cruelty to animals.”
― David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

“But now she couldn’t deny what was staring her plainly in the face: dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea.”
― Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

“North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?”
― Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“And if you’re going to blame your parents for the bad stuff, you also have to give them credit for the good stuff.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing

“if you spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror, you will crash your car.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“Do you know what St. Peter says to everyone who tries to get into heaven?"
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"Peter says, 'Don't you have any scars?' And when most would respond proudly, 'Well, no, no I don't,' Peter says, 'Why not? Was there nothing worth fighting for?”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“It is very odd to live in a world where if you died, it would shock people but surprise no one.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“God is everywhere—you just have to clear your channel, or you’ll miss it.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“Nobody ever thinks that something really bad is going to happen to them. Until it does.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
― Sun Tzu

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“What he needed was a place where he could be on his laptop for eighteen hours a day and no one would question why he was being antisocial or what he was working on. Which meant he had to go to San Francisco.”
― Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

“Over time he learned that the way to have a leg up on everyone else was to anticipate something before it happened and then have the answer to it.”
― Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

“He would soon be the first person in history to start an underground drug Web site on the Internet and the first person in history to see it go bankrupt because he had written so much shitty code.”
― Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”
― Peter Benchley, Jaws