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Marissa’s Quotes

“Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun, and you might meet 'em both if you show up here not welcome, son.”
― Josh Thompson

tags: guns, the-lord

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“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence

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“Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: desperation, love, reason, violence

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“Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: death, immortality, pirates

385 likes

“He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: happiness-fulfillment-desire

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