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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, out leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on Kurt Vonnegut
As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind. Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Where there is nothing, Peter Walsh said to himself; feeling hollowed out, utterly empty within. Clarissa refused me, he thought. He stood there thinking, Clarissa refused me. Virginia Woolf
Arthur Golden quote: "Chairman: "Sometimes", he sighed, "I think the things I..."
Chairman: "Sometimes", he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. Arthur Golden
Peter glances out at the falling snow. Oh, little man. You have brought down your house not through passion but by neglect. You who dared to think of yourself as dangerous. You are guilty not of the epic transgressions but the tiny crimes. You have failed in the most base and human of ways - you have not imagined the lives of others. Michael Cunningham
The kid's driving me bat-shit," Cam complained as he stalked into the kitchen. "You can't say boo to him without him squaring up for a fight."Mm-hmm."Argumentative, smart-mouthed, troublemaker."Must be like looking in a mirror."Like hell."Don't know what I was thinking of. You're such a peaceable soul. Nora Roberts
Meg Cabot quote: "I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but..."
I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility. Meg Cabot
Terry Prachett quote: "you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never..."
you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong. Terry Prachett
In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!' to another monk, the latter must call back 'Hi!' without thinking. J. D. Salinger
Roger Ebert quote: "In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't..."
In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are. Roger Ebert
Samuel Beckett quote: "We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?"
We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist? Samuel Beckett
In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish George R. R. Martin
Well," she said, "if I were the enemy commander, and our assault had failed three times, and I wanted to make a fourth, I don't think I'd attack with fewer men. But that's just me."Shut up, Loiosh."I beg your pardon?"Never mind. Private joke. Steven Brust
David Eddings quote: "You're going to be a father. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think..."
You're going to be a father. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll throw up again. David Eddings
Flann O'Brien quote: "What you think is the point is not the point at all but only..."
What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness. Flann O'Brien
[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something? but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a... Douglas Adams

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