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The closest thing that comes to how the day felt is when you wipe back to front. You're on the toilet. You're not thinking, and you smear shit on the back of your hanging-down wrinkled ball skin. The more you try to wipe it clean, the skin stretches and the mess keeps getting bigger. The thin layer of shit spreads into the hair and down your thighs. That's how a day like this, how it feels to keep secret. Chuck Palahniuk
Haruki Murakami quote: "Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set..."
Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them. Haruki Murakami
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights...How wonderful it was when one sentence followed logically from the sentence before!...There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Jeffrey Eugenides
Dwight L. Moody quote: "A worldly Christian is just like a wrecked vessel at sea."
A worldly Christian is just like a wrecked vessel at sea. Dwight L. Moody
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "What is heavy? so asks the spirit that would bear much, and..."
What is heavy? so asks the spirit that would bear much, and then kneels down like the camel, and wants to be well laden. Friedrich Nietzsche
Full many a gem of purest ray serene. The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. And waste its sweetness on the desert air"A good many flowers bloom and fade away in deserted places, seen by no one. In its context in Thomas Gray's "Elegy" it is actually a metaphor for common folk who do heroic things that are never reported in the news or recorded in history. Like a precious stone unmined at the bottom of the ocean or a beautiful flower blooming in... Thomas Gray
Haruki Murakami quote: "At times like this, adults need a drink"
At times like this, adults need a drink Haruki Murakami
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water. Friedrich Nietzsche
An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing, there is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present. Oscar Wilde
Honor to the government, and obedience, and also to the crooked government! So desires good sleep. How can I help it, if power likes to walk on crooked legs? Friedrich Nietzsche
And there was nothing you could do about a woman like that. She just turned herself into a hammer and you ran right into her. Terry Prachett
Sylvia Plath quote: "Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which..."
Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming? Sylvia Plath
Stephenie Meyer quote: "The thing about the sun… is that it’s always there. Like..."
The thing about the sun… is that it’s always there. Like sometimes, you can’t see it, but it never really goes away. Stephenie Meyer
I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness Charles Dickens
It helps, of course - let's not get carried away - if you'er a young prince like Mizzy, and you've actually got something of value to destroy in the first place. Michael Cunningham

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