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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Voltaire
    “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Rebecca Solnit
    “There are other ways women have been made to disappear. There is the business of naming.In some cultures women keep their names, but in most their children take the father's name, and in the English-speaking world until very recently, prefaced by Mrs. You stopped, for example, being Charlotte Bronte and became Mrs. Arthur Nicholls. Names erased a woman's genealogy and even her existence.”
    ― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    “The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".”
    ― Jeremy Grantham
    tags: communism, despotism, distopian, fascism, police-state
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
    tags: jeffrey-eugenides, pretend-happiness, suicide, the-virgin-suicides
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Anthony Ryan
    “War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.”
    ― Anthony Ryan, Blood Song
    tags: irony, war
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    John Green
    “People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: religion
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    John Green
    “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: alone, man-s-heart, men, sad, violence, women
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
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    William Shakespeare
    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: god, humor, life
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    Steven Wright
    “I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: humor, irony, nobel-peace-prize
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    Wilkie Collins
    “The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: irony, reality
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  • #23
    Plato
    “Si vis pacem, para bellum”
    ― Plato, The Laws of Plato
    tags: peace, war
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, Clash of Kings
    tags: tyrion-lannister
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  • #25
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
    tags: insult, simile, witty
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    William Shakespeare
    “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: romance, teen-suicide, tragedy
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
    10128 likes



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