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Fairness is not among the laws of the universe. This means, if someone runs over your foot in a car and they don't stop , that's just too bad and it totally sucks and you better bust your ass to get yourself to the hospital right now so they can save the foot. Augusten Burroughs
It won't seem to you nonsense in ten years' time,' said Mrs. Hilbery. 'Believe me, Katharine, you'll look back on this these days afterwards; you'll remember all the silly things you've said; and you'll find that your life has been built on them. The best of life is built on what we say when we're in love. It isn't nonsense Katherine,' she urged, 'it's the truth, it's the only truth. Virginia Woolf
Herman Melville quote: "Queequeq, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen?"
Queequeq, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen? Herman Melville
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. Margaret Atwood
to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything, except get into debt. Rather than borrow, he did not eat. Victor Hugo
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue..."
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson
But then again, chance has nothing to do with it. Your two fates did not cross through mere happenstance. The two of you set foot in this world because you were meant to enter it. And now that you have entered it, like it or not, each of you will be assigned your proper role here. Haruki Murakami
TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with. Do you know who your parents are? Unknowingyou are enemy to kith and kinin death, beneath the earth, and in this life. Sophocles
--one of the reasons I'm talking to you now is to tell you that whatever you may be planning, you must not break the law. Since I have just now stepped out of this room and any voice you may be hearing cannot possibly be mine, I must however point out to you that there are times when the law may be somewhat...flexible. Terry Prachett
When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. Leo Tolstoy
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge,..."
Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger in one's soul? Friedrich Nietzsche
George R. R. Martin quote: "I was not born this morning, Lannister?"
I was not born this morning, Lannister? George R. R. Martin
Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just as the Prophet Muhammad decided centuries ago. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Aware that much of the story was out of his hands, he tried to exercise what control he could: he hovered around the reporters' typewriters as they wrote, passed them questions as they talked on the phone to sources, demanded to be briefed after they hung up or returned from a meeting. Now, gulping down antacid tablets, Rosenfeld grilled Bernstein and Woodward to find out how solid this latest story was.-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward Carl Bernstein
Dean Koontz quote: "All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a..."
All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one. Dean Koontz

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