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#1

“... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

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“Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.”
― E. L. Doctorow

tags: balance, bias, fairness, ridicule, satire, truth

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#3

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

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#4

“I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

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#6

“I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

tags: capitalism

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#7

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: identity, originality

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#8

“Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.”
― Malcolm De Chazal

tags: animals, contradiction, language, meaning

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#9

“I want to be bruised by God.
I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out.
I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed.
I want to be entered and picked clean.”
― Charles Wright, Country Music: Selected Early Poems

tags: poetry

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#10

“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

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#11

“Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.”
― Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes

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#12

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: smile

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#13

“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: death

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#14

“...she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see...”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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#15

“anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings

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#16

“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

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#17

“People can be slave ships in shoes.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

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#18

“She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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#19

“I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul. I would like that a lot.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

tags: joy

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#20

“She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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#21

“Trust me. I'm a genius.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

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#22

“You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.”
― Eoin Colfer

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#23

“We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident

tags: humor

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#24

“Time only counts when you have a purpose”
― Chevy Stevens, Still Missing

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#25

“What business does memory have with time?”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

tags: beautiful-ruins, memory, time

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#26

“He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

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#27

“She saw death as just another wedding she wasn't invited to.”
― Jess Walter, The Zero

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#28

“The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

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#29

“In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

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#30

“Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.”
― Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael

tags: children-education

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