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Suzanne Collins quote: "The more you can distract yourself, the better."
The more you can distract yourself, the better. Suzanne Collins
It’s clear that when we’re this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule the lesser species through intimidation. That’s why the single most important thing you can do as a human is to dominate an animal. Need more proof? “Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” I’d say that about covers it. Stephen Colbert
Come on, girl. Don't cry," whispered Frank. "Why not? I can be miserable if I want to. You don't need to try and make it go away. It shouldn't go away. It's just as sad as it ought to be and I'm not going to hide from what's true just because it hurts." Cee wasn't sobbing anymore, but the tears were still running down her cheeks. Toni Morrison
It is this insistence of man upon meaning that makes him so difficult. Once he realizes that he is of no importance whatever in the vast scheme of the universe, that no possible significance can be attached to his activities, that it does not matter whether he lives or dies, he will become much more? tractable. Ayn Rand
Haruki Murakami quote: "We ourselves will never know much of perpetuity. But we can..."
We ourselves will never know much of perpetuity. But we can get a faint inkling of what it’s like. Haruki Murakami
What we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce asurly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent Gilbert K. Chesterton
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end."
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. Benjamin Disraeli
Steve Martin quote: "Be so good they can't ignore you."
Be so good they can't ignore you. Steve Martin
Shirley Jackson quote: "I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I..."
I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more. Shirley Jackson
If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels? Suzanne Collins
I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more. Arthur Golden
In Moscow you can sit in an enormous restaurant where you don’t know anybody and where nobody knows you, and you don’t feel all the same that you’re a stranger. And here you know everybody and everybody knows you, and you’re a stranger... and a lonely stranger. Anton Chekhov
... it seems Einstein was doubly wrong when he said, God does not play dice. Not only does God definitely play dice, but He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen. Stephen Hawking
Arundhati Roy quote: "There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a..."
There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart. Arundhati Roy
It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched. Tove Jansson

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