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"Ok that was a better ending than where I thought it was heading. And I liked that she acknowledged and addressed the "coincidence"" — Mar 23, 2026 09:30PM
"Ok that was a better ending than where I thought it was heading. And I liked that she acknowledged and addressed the "coincidence"" — Mar 23, 2026 09:30PM
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"And done! I think it ended a bit too fast but I liked how it went down" — Mar 01, 2026 10:46AM
"And done! I think it ended a bit too fast but I liked how it went down" — Mar 01, 2026 10:46AM
A secret is only yours so long as you don’t share it. Tell it to one person, and it’s a secret no more.
“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Candide
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Candide
“We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them.
"Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
"Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
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