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She loved it because I told it just for her. It was not entirely the truth. But so little of what I told anyone ever was. I had ceased feeling guilty long ago. Words and stories were tools to elicit the desired reactions in others, and I
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“Puns often seem to propagate in direct proportion to efforts aimed at suppressing them. Tell someone they can't say something, and they'll find another way, much as a river will eventually find a way round any mountain on its journey to the sea.”
― The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
― The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
“My closest friend at this time was my tiny pet dog - it was one of the cute little breeds that people in other countries put frocks on. I wouldn't have been allowed to do that, because putting clothes on dogs was a well-known example of capitalist degeneracy.”
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
“And that during moments of reflection, you began to understand, perhaps in a hundred silent ways, that it was once real. Because you still carried the pain. The pain was the evidence that it was real.”
― A Hundred Silent Ways
― A Hundred Silent Ways
“Isn't it weird that everything that's coming out of my mouth is going directly into the past?”
― The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
― The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
“Sometimes --- in fact, often --- easy is just as good. Things don't need to be complicated.”
― A Hundred Silent Ways
― A Hundred Silent Ways
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