Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
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| — | Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle |
Now she was finding that there were some things she could only do when there were no excuses left.
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| — | Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle |
Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.
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| — | George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones |
Even the finest of jugglers cannot keep a hundred balls in the air forever.
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| — | George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones |
What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.
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| — | John Green, Looking for Alaska |
There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.
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| — | John Green, Looking for Alaska |
…I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia…You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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| — | John Green, Looking for Alaska |
…for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning.
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| — | John Green, Looking for Alaska |
Because you simply cannot draw things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.
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| — | John Green, Looking for Alaska |
We’re living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we’re left here with this cluttered world of language…
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| — | Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby |
It’s nothing perfect or complete, but this is what I’ve made of my life. Right or wrong, it follows no great master plan.
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| — | Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby |
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war will take care of the issue.
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| — | Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby |
The only biodiversity we’re going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We’re landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.
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| — | Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby |
The masochist bullies the sadist into action. The most passive person is actually an aggressor. Every day, just you living means the misery and death of plants and animals- and even some people. Slaughterhouses, factory farms, sweatshops, like it or not, that’s what your money buys.
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| — | Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby |
