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“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”
― David Foster Wallace

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

“ouch, an egg!”
― Franklin Pierce

“I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Oops”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters