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“If you're strange enough, people won't notice you're kind and will leave you alone.”
― Ten Things I Hate about You
― Ten Things I Hate about You
“That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“I ain't gonna baptize. I'm gonna work in the fiel's, in the green fiel's, an' I'm gonna be near to folks. I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn. Gonna learn why the folks walks in the grass, gonna hear 'em talk, gonna hear 'em sing. Gonna listen to kids eatin' mush. Gonna hear husban' an' wife a-poundin' the mattress in the night. Gonna eat with 'em and learn," His eyes were wet and shining. "Gonna lay in the grass, open an' honest with anybody that'll have me. Gonna cuss an' swear an' hear the poetry of folks talkin'. All that's holy, all that's what I didn't understan'. All them things is the good things.”
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“I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?”
― Ten Things I Hate about You
― Ten Things I Hate about You
“In my mind, there are two kinds of looking. There's the kind of looking that is respectful, almost magical, where you observe something without daring to touch it. And then there's the kind of looking that's like slurping a Coke.”
― Ten Things I Hate about You
― Ten Things I Hate about You
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