“I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.”
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“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.”
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“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
― The Dead of Night
― The Dead of Night
“Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.”
― Silence
― Silence
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