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“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“ساعت کی دو و نیم شد؟همین الان ده بود. کذام احمقی گفته زمان خطی است؟ دروغ گفته. زمان معادله ی چند مجهولی است. اگر نامه ننوشته باشد یا کاری نکرده, دو ساعت میشود دو دقیقه. دو ثانیه اصلا. چشم بهم بزنی میگذرد.اما اگر منتظر باشی ,مثلا منتظر جواب یک کارمند احمق در سفارت , دو ماه به اندازه ی دویست سال میگذرد.هی پیرتر و پیر تر میشوی در اینه. روزها جانت را میگیرند و شب نمیشوند.”
― نسیم مرعشی, پاییز فصل آخر سال است

“Trevor, remember a man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be a man of the house and earn less than your woman. Being a man is not what you have, it's who you are. Being more of a man doesn't mean your woman has to be less than you.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Never mess with someone who has more spare time than you do[.]”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Only different people change the world,” Granny used to say. “No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.

Words are not small things.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“- i have done things i am not proud of, things that brought shame onto my house and my father's name.. but to kill your own sire? how could any man do that?
- give me a crossbow and pull down your breeches, and i'll show you. gladly.
- you think this is a jape?
- i think life is a jape. yours, mine, everyone's.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"
Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue

“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“What you consider 'friendship' is really just your constant attempts to impress people.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“the only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Creo que nos quedamos ciegos, creo que estamos ciegos, ciegos que ven, ciegos que, viendo, no ven.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“A book is a loaded gun.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I turned my attention to every­ thing that was done by people who claimed to be Christians, I was horrified.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

“حماقت بزرگی است که آدمی به منظور برنده شدن در بیرون٬ در درون ببازد.”
― آرتور شوپنهاور

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa