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There were car gods there: a powerful, serious-faced contingent, with blood on their black gloves and on their chrome teeth: recipients of human sacrifice on a scale undreamed-of since the Aztecs. Neil Gaiman
So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom’s jury, but you saw something come between them and reason. You saw the same thing that night in front of the jail. When that crew went away, they didn’t go as reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black... Harper Lee
There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.) Harvey Pekar
After all has been said that can be said about the widening influence of ideas, it remains true that they would hardly be such strong agents unless they were taken in a solvent of feeling. The great world-struggle of developing thought is continually foreshadowed in the struggle of the affections, seeking a justification for love and hope. George Eliot
Winston Churchill quote: "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose..."
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war. Winston Churchill
Peter Shaffer quote: "Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same..."
Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the world? Peter Shaffer
Cormac McCarthy quote: "All his early dreams were the same. Something was afraid and..."
All his early dreams were the same. Something was afraid and he had come to comfort it. Cormac McCarthy
Corrie said she was glad that what they were doing—what they had just done—appeared not to bother him, in spite of his belief. She said that she herself had never had any time for God, because her father was enough to cope with. Alice Munro
As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies. Truman Capote
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery. William Golding
Even in dreams and in death, a monk and a fox are from different worlds, as they were in life, and in different worlds they will forever stay Neil Gaiman
Ernest Hemingway quote: "I thought that all generations were lost by something and..."
I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be Ernest Hemingway
So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they did meant this was an audience pretty low down on the scale of sophistication, otherwise they would be saying, "Just like us, isn't it? Doris Lessing
Anais Nin quote: "I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator,..."
I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. Anais Nin
We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill. Yukio Mishima

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