 
   
      “He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
    
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
  ― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
 
      “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    
― The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
  ― The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
 
      “Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
    
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      “-tomorrow is our permanent address
and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do,
we’ll move away still further:into now”
― Selected Poems
  and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do,
we’ll move away still further:into now”
― Selected Poems
 
      “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”
    
― Lord of the Flies
  ― Lord of the Flies
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