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I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic.
“However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“Emotions had welled close to the surface, and she thought her heart had never felt so full as it did standing next to the defiled grave of a whore while lunatics sang the national anthem.”
― A Madness So Discreet
― A Madness So Discreet
“It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but history takes the laugh out of many things. If the arrow is a joke, so is the atom bomb, so is the sweep of disease laden dust that wipes out whole cities, so is the screaming rocket that arcs and falls then thousand miles away and kills a million people.”
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“Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women?”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
“I guess he's used to suspicious people with crappy tempers. Or maybe I've never seemed as normal as I thought.”
― White Cat
― White Cat
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