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“Eventually we found ourselves in the middle of an onion field. When you’re hungry and don’t know where and when your next meal is coming, you can eat almost anything. Those were the best damn onions I’ve ever eaten. At that moment they tasted as sweet as apples.”
― Duff McKagan, It's So Easy: And Other Lies

“Nici minciuna nu ați știut să v-o allegeți ca niște oameni. Câini ați fost, de la început și până la capăt. Cățea m-ați vrut și pe mine. La București ninge întruna, iar în capul meu limbile se încurcă și îmi amorțesc creierul. În ce limbă să vă caut? În ce limbă să vă iert? De ce nu v-a spus nimeni că mai bine rămâneați morți? Morți, m-ați fi iubit mai tare. Morți, v-aș fi iubit mai tare.”
― Tatiana Țîbuleac, Grădina de sticlă

“(Actually, languages can be very tricky in this respect. The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive but none in which a double positive makes a negative—to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, “Yeah, yeah.”
― Steven H. Strogatz, The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

“Start every day with a clear conscience,” he said. “You should be able to wake up, go to the mirror in your bathroom, look yourself right in the eye, and say, ‘I didn’t lie to anyone I encountered yesterday,’ ‘I didn’t skirt an issue yesterday.’ If you lead an honest life, there are no regrets.”
― Duff McKagan, It's So Easy: And Other Lies