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This world . . . belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf is the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he... Ken Kesey
Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? . . . I expect it will be sit and wait. Barbara Pym
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "Reality is what you can get away with."
Reality is what you can get away with. Robert Anton Wilson
William Trevor quote: "I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of..."
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist. William Trevor
...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end...Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I've decried consumerism. Consumerism is what we are. It is, in a sense, a holy impulse. A human being is someone who joyfully goes in pursuit of things, brings them home, then immediately starts planning how to get more. George Saunders
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. Bob Dylan
If it weren't for the people, the god-damn people' said Finnerty, 'always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren't for them, the world would be an engineer's paradise. Kurt Vonnegut
There's an old saying in Tennessee? I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee? that says, fool me once, shame on? shame on you. Fool me? you can't get fooled again. George W. Bush
An enormous emotion beat on him; it was like something trying to get in, the pressure of gigantic wings against the glass. Dona nobis pacem. He withstood it, with all the bitter force of the school bench, the cement playground, the St. Pancras waiting room, Dallow's and Judy's secret lust, and the cold and unhappy moment on the pier. If the glass broke, if the beast--whatever it was--got in, God knows what it would do. He had a sense of huge havoc--the confession, the penance, and the... Graham Greene
Gerard Way quote: "I know something you don't....and that is.... I'M NOT WEARING..."
I know something you don't....and that is.... I'M NOT WEARING ANY UNDERWEAR! We're gonna get sexy for a minute! Gerard Way
Elbert Hubbard quote: "The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along..."
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. Elbert Hubbard
Tom Waits quote: "I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink."
I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink. Tom Waits
Salman Rushdie quote: "Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their..."
Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere? Salman Rushdie
But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth. Robert A. Heinlein
Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse. Emma Bull

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