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    John Rogers
    “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

    [Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
    ― John Rogers
    tags: atlas-shrugged, ayn-rand, books, children-s-literature, education, fantasy, jrr-tolkien, life-changing, lord-of-the-rings, reading, real-world
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    Gillian Flynn
    “I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
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    Gillian Flynn
    “Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
    tags: fear
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    Gillian Flynn
    “I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
    tags: hard-hearted, sobriety
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    Gillian Flynn
    “To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
    tags: refuse, submission
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    Gillian Flynn
    “How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
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    Gillian Flynn
    “I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am. I feel like a warm gust of wind could exhale my way and I'd be disappeared forever, not even a sliver of fingernail left behind. On some days, I find this thought calming; on others it chills me.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
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  • #8
    Gillian Flynn
    “And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be looked after, I find offensive.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
    tags: drunk, feminism, offense, sexual-discrimination
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  • #9
    Gillian Flynn
    “Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
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  • #10
    Gillian Flynn
    “My mother said she was the most popular girl in school, and I believed it. Jackie said she was the meanest, and I believed that, too.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
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    Gillian Flynn
    “Normally, Richard was the kind of guy I disliked, someone born and raised plush: looks, charm, smarts, probably money. These men were never very interesting to me; they had no edges, and they were usually cowards. They instinctively fled any situation that might cause them embarrassment or awkwardness. But Richard didn’t bore me. Maybe because his grin was a little crooked. Or because he made his living dealing in ugly things.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: feminism
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse
    tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age
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  • #16
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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  • #17
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: feminism, philosophy
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  • #18
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
    tags: books, culture, literature
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: freedom-of-choice, heterosexuality, homosexuality, love
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  • #20
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: charity, compassion, generosity
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  • #21
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: feminism
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  • #22
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. ”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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  • #23
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: beauty, body-image, diet-industry, eating-disorders, self-esteem, weight
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  • #24
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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  • #25
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex
    tags: feminism
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  • #26
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: housework, repetition, sisyphus
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  • #27
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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  • #28
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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