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“You see, working-class people have no confidence.” Houle said in his quiet, straightforward way. “It just takes a while to get some.” … “I was lucky … no, not lucky, lucky’s a funny word, eh? … I was given the chance to prove I was good enough.”

“I simply want to do it right; I want to do it in such a way that years from now, when I forget it has nothing to do with going out on top, I will feel no regret and others will feel none for me.”
PQ Pequistes 1980s election

“We are a team that has gone one step further — we know there are differences, we just don’t think they are that important”

P.53

“To realize winning is the central card in a house of cards, and that without it, or with less of it, motivations that seemed pure and clear go cloudy… There is something remarkably strong about a team that wins; and something remarkably weak about a team who doesn’t.”

“The team that won together, loses as twenty separate guys, each running for his own lifeboat.”

“If god is perfect and he changes his mind, doesn’t that mean he’s not perfect?”

“We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

“Parasite. Yes! All I am is a mouth, eyes, asshole, and a cock—seeing, eating, talking, taking, buying, shitting, fucking, and making money. One of gods ugliest, simplest, most perfect creatures.”

How can you atone to nature for your nature doing what it does? … How do you atone to God for being as he made you?”

“Does dying for an idea make that idea worth dying for?”

“Righteousness did not have to raise its voice or use muscle to prevail.”

“One parent, two parents, three parents, none, no one knows how the fuck it gets done.”

“Even the righteous once’s had to figure the evil angles and do the dark math. Everybody has dirty, bloody, calloused hands.”

“She who can sustain the most pains wins… Now buck the fuck up”

“What happens to a woman when her justifications outweigh her foundations?”


“But the truth of life itself — it didn’t matter. None of this shit mattered. It was all child’s play after all. And that was fucking beautiful, not tragic.”

“He’d been enlarged, that was a gift, and now emptied, another gift, and he was ready to be refilled.”

“People are simpler than you think, they’re like Birds.”
“They like being up in the air?”
“No, Killer. They like shiny things.”

“Don’t future trip, Expectations are future resentments.”

P. 83, 91

P. 39, 45, 51, 57, 65, 69, 71, 77, 81

“If, of course, your action is wrong, just don’t do it at all; but if it’s right, why be afraid of people whose criticism is off the mark?”

Food for thought pages:
5, 13, 17, 19, 27, 31,