- "My childhood dream-that I would move to New York and have a creative life filled with many interesting friends who had terrible, terrible problems-came true." -David Rakoff (via Isabel)
- “For if you have embraced a creed that appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves you are in the right? And the more you are in the right, the more natural that everyone else should be bullied into thinking likewise.” -George Orwell, Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
- “Applied to foreign politics, pacifism either stops being pacifist or becomes appeasement… Who is sane? Was Hitler sane? And is it not possible for one whole culture to be insane by the standards of another?... These and kindred questions need discussion, and need it urgently, in the few years left to us before somebody presses the button and the rockets begin to fly." -George Orwell, Reflections on Gandhi
- "Well, and you are a foolish child to be forever thinking of this. You have grown fond and too fond of your wife and it is not seemly, for a man ought not to care for his wife that his parents gave him above all else in the world. It is not meet for a man to love his wife with a foolish and overweening love, as though she were a harlot." -Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
- "I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
- “Trick to being cheated is to learn how to cheat.” ... “This was a story about a girl who could find infinite beauty in anything, any little thing, and even love the person she was trapped with. And i told myself this story until it became true. Now, did doing this help me escape a wasted life? Or did it blind me so I didn't want to escape it? I don't know, but either way I was the one telling my own story...” - Penelope, The Brothers Bloom
- “An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” – G. K. Chesterton, “On Running After One’s Hat.”
- But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. -James Madison, Federalist #51
- It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. -George Orwell, “Why I Joined the Independent Labour Party”
- “Why are you walking so fast?” “I’m doing my fast walk. See, this is my fast walk!” ; “Jerry!” ; “Cats and dogs are living together! People are using their cell phones! This is insanity!” - hilarity
- "Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did was wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club." - The Breakfast Club <3
- "I can only hope that when the world ends, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to." - Donnie Darko
- “Smile though your heart is aching, Smile even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky you'll get by..." - Smile - Charlie Chaplin, Nat King Cole
- "What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent - he solves." "How?" "He decides." -Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah.
- "Donde está la biblioteca/ mi llamo t-bone/ la araña discoteca..." - Community <3
- "Ne mets pas tes mains sur les portes, tu risques de te faire pincer tres forte." - Le Lapin du Metro Parisian
- “I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired/ I will laugh my way through the hurricanes and fire/ That's why you don't wanna bring me down” – Cloud Cult
- "I have to admit, if that guy was really a serial rapist killer, that'd be one fucking awesome way to die." - Laci Green during her 24 hour blogtv charity drive
- "this might be a stretch, but i think it'd be fair to say, just like Nick's last name, well, i could take every Carraway." - Will Thwaites, Daisy's Lullaby
- "There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who think there are two kinds of people, and the kind who don't." -random speaker dude at orientation
- 'And in his mind he cried, "Don't let me be mean."' - Steinbeck, East of Eden
- "But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not." - Steinbeck, East of Eden
- "Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?" - Steinbeck, East of Eden
- "If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does, I would pison him." - Huck Finn, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- "I’m fascinated by the way the contemporary world has constructed this manic pixie dream girl (to use a term coined by Nathan Rabin) who flutters into the lives of men and changes them forever with her moodiness and mystery. This idea has become the kind of female Edward Cullen, and I am of course drawn to it myself but also really troubled by it, because I think it’s just a new kind of objectification of women. So I think I wrote about that in Paper Towns not because I saw it in my own life but because I saw it in my first novel, Looking for Alaska, and because in the years after writing that story, I became more and more troubled by the book’s failure to point out that, like, the idea of the manic pixie dream girl is not just a lie but a dangerous one that does disservice both to the person doing the imagining and the person being imagined." - John Green
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