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“For you know only a heap of broken images”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

“Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

“April is the cruelest month.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

“What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.
You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.
Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”
Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.”
― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

“If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier -- it means he's a scumbag.”
― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

“According to pop culture, women are either searching for a man, with a man, or getting over one.”
― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters

“Women politicians have definitely been known to fuck over other women. Democratic Louisiana”
― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

“While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.”
― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

“Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;”
― Émile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology

“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

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.”
― Sappho

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Terry Johnson, Insignificance

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Et tu, Brute?”
― William Shakespeare , Julius Caesar

“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”
― William Shakespeare, Illustrated Shakespeare (RHUK) Editions: Hamlet

“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“love is blind
and lovers cannot see
the pretty follies
that themselves commit”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet