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Margaret Atwood quote: "If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions..."
If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice. Margaret Atwood
We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all. Jeanette Winterson
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass. Simone de Beauvoir
The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate. Kurt Tucholsky
Suzanne Collins quote: "I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember."
I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember. Suzanne Collins
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect..."
Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck. Laurell K. Hamilton
...and it made me uncomfortable the way this guy was eating a scrawny chicken wing and looking at me. You know, I just wanted to tell him to knock it off and be a person. Tama Janowitz
Con men and tricksters run the world. Rascals rule. And do you know why? because they are hungier than we are. because they know what they want. because they believe in life more than we do. Paul Auster
If you want to really relax sometime, just fall to rock bottom and you'll be a happy man. Most all troubles come from having standards. Thomas Berger
I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true. Edith Wharton
You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself. Jodi Picoult
We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing? Mitch Albom
Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused. Swami Vivekananda
But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving. Jodi Picoult
Amy Tan quote: "It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come..."
It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want. Amy Tan

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