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“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“যাহাকে ভালবাসি, সে যদি ভাল না বাসে, এমন কি ঘৃণাও করে, তাও বোধ করি সহ্য হয়, কিন্তু যাহার ভালবাসা পাইয়াছি বলিয়া বিশ্বাস করিয়াছি, সেইখানে ভুল ভাঙ্গিয়া যাওয়াটাই নিদারুন। পূর্বেরটা ব্যথাই দেয়, কিন্তু শেষেরটা ব্যথাও দেয়, অপমানও করে। আবার এ ব্যথার প্রতিকার নাই, এ অপমানের নালিশ নাই।”
― Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, चरित्रहीन

“To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day…. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.”
― Daphne Sheldrick

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

“If you can't get a miracle, become one.”
― Nick Vujicic, Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life

“It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.”
― Nick Vujicic

“The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to build all by yourself, all alone, all through the night, while the world goes about its business without giving a damn. The only way of making this perilous passage is by looking at it as a pilgrimage.”
― Shatrujeet Nath

“Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.”
― Stephen King

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer... because it teaches you how to think.”
― Steve Jobs

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.”
― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams: Les Brown's Formula and Action Planner for Achieving Success and Happiness

“Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.”
― Glenn Beck, The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

“What’s the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we’re willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?”
― F. Sherwood Rowland

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
― Tchaikovsky

“Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories