“It’s so easy to know so much, he would tell us, gesturing around the library. It’s all right there, and it’s free.”
― Lost Man's Lane
― Lost Man's Lane
“There are two kinds of women: those who spend a lifetime trying not to turn into their mothers, and those who literally seem to want nothing more. I often find both varieties get the complete opposite of what they hoped for – one set become carbon copies of the women they didn’t want to be, while the others never live up to their own expectations of who they think they should have become”
― His & Hers
― His & Hers
“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
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ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
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“Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them,”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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