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    Bill Hicks
    “I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.”
    ― Bill Hicks
    tags: humour, misanthropy
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”
    ― Anais Nin
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: life
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
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    Jack Kerouac
    “They build their own Hells.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    J.D. Robb
    “I want to see you again." He stopped, took her face in his hands. "I need to see you again."

    Her pulse jumped, as if it had nothing to do with the rest of her. "Roarke, what's going on here?"

    "Lieutenant." He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. "indications are we're having a romance.”
    ― J.D. Robb, Naked in Death
    tags: eve-dallas, roarke
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    J.D. Robb
    “Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn't keep our hands off each other, couldn't get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do." He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. "It's never going to change.”
    ― J.D. Robb, Big Jack
    tags: eve-dallas, in-death, love, roarke, romance
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “In a society where the majority choose charisma over character, democracy does more harm than good to the actual progress of that society”
    ― Abhijit Naskar
    tags: democracy, democracy-freedom, democracy-voting, democratic-society, government, government-corruption, inspirational, political-philosophy
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “​On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar
    tags: behaviorism, government, government-corruption, government-quotes, government-regulation, inspirational, nation-building, neuropsychology, pearls-of-wisdom, philosophy, philosophy-of-science, political-philosophy, political-science, social-psychology
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    “The handkerchief is the universal utensil of the seasoned traveler. It can be a sanitizing device, a seat cover, a dust mask, a garrote, a bandage, a gag, or a white flag. One may feel well-prepared with nothing but a pocket square.”
    ― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends
    tags: travel
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    Anthony Burgess
    “Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: dystopia
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    “Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”
    ― Tahereh Mafi
    tags: dystopia, hate, inspirational, love, shatter-me, young-adult
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    Philip K. Dick
    “There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: dystopia, liberty, spying, surveillance, surveillance-society, technology
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    Iain Banks
    “The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others”
    ― Iain M. Banks, Complicity
    tags: complicity, dystopia, greed, indictment, morality, nihilistic
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    Stephen King
    “In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .”
    ― Stephen King, The Running Man
    tags: bachman, ben, dystopia, king, life, man, network, richard, richards, running, stephen, survival
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    “I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far. They're incinerating culture, the beauty of diversity. The new citizens of our world will be reduced to nothing but numbers, easily interchangeable, easily removable, easily destroyed for disobedience.

    We have lost our humanity.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: dystopia, humanity, juliette, reestablishment
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    Tad Williams
    “...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.”
    ― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow
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    Shelly Crane
    “Only the sweetest of the sweet would bring brownies to the apocalypse.”
    ― Shelly Crane, Collide
    tags: collide, dystopia
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    Jacques Ellul
    “Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.”
    ― Jacques Ellul
    tags: dystopia, technique
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    Bernard Beckett
    “The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.”
    ― Bernard Beckett, Genesis
    tags: dystopia, you-ve-been-warned
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    E.M. Forster
    “But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.”
    ― E. M. Forster
    tags: dystopia
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    Margaret Atwood
    “How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
    Creation's mighty seed -
    For Man has broke the Fellowship
    With murder, lust, and greed.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: dystopia, fellowship, maddaddam-trilogy, margaret-atwood, ren, the-year-of-the-flood, toby, when-adam-first
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: abuse, history, humanity, kiss, life, mankind, scars, wounds
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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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    Franz Kafka
    “A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: absurd
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    Libba Bray
    “You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.”
    ― Libba Bray, Going Bovine
    tags: friends, gonzo, hidden-feelings, knowing
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