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"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
— Quentin Crisp
— Quentin Crisp
"Clary groaned. "You're an idiot."
"I've never claimed otherwise."
Clary, to Simon."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
"I've never claimed otherwise."
Clary, to Simon."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
"We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal."
— Carl Bernstein
— Carl Bernstein
""I wonder what would happen if I fell..." -Jenny
"I don't know. Let's find out." -Gina
*pushes*
*falls*
"ahhhh!" -Jenny
*laughs* "I didn't mean to actually push you, but you didn't really fall off..." -Gina
"That's because I caught myself before I fell all the way!" -Jenny
"
— Jenny and Gina Testa
"I don't know. Let's find out." -Gina
*pushes*
*falls*
"ahhhh!" -Jenny
*laughs* "I didn't mean to actually push you, but you didn't really fall off..." -Gina
"That's because I caught myself before I fell all the way!" -Jenny
"
— Jenny and Gina Testa
"Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua."
— Julio Cortázar (Around the Day in Eighty Worlds)
— Julio Cortázar (Around the Day in Eighty Worlds)
"To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame"
— Alfred de Vigny (Stello)
— Alfred de Vigny (Stello)
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