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“Men shouldn’t be allowed to go shopping in the supermarket. They should be shot on sight if they walked in. Robin hated everyone.”
― Mike Omer, Please Tell Me

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

“Nothing spells trouble like two drunk cowboys with a rocket launcher.”
― C.J. Box, Cold Wind

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“They say the camera can add ten pounds. It can also make a troubled marriage look perfect.”
― Daniel Hurst, The Wife's Baby

“There’s no need to be afraid of the dead. It’s the living you have to watch out for.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“This is what it means to age, I think. The days are long, but the years are short.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“Mommy says I have to brush each night before prayers, so I can talk to God with a clean mouth.”
― EE Isherwood, 1000 Miles of Bad Road 3: After the EMPs

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
― Dorothy Parker

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

“Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When the government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a full adult human responsible for her own choices.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don't believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measurable and verifiable. Just as gravity exerts its force on all of us, whether we believe in it or not, climate change is already affecting us all no matter where we were born or where we live.”
― Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

“I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can't fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it "sir" because it would be the dominant species on the planet. None of us would leave the house unless a Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider said it was okay”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders

“Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.”
― John Connolly, The Reapers

“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
― André Maurois

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Next year in Jerusalem!”
― Jewbelong, Jewbelong Passover

“With any spiritual or metaphysical practice, you reap what you sow.”
― Mat Auryn, Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation

“Weeds can be good friends; they're just herbs with different names.”
― Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home

“A dog has lots of friends because it wags its tail and not its tongue.”
― Anna Faversham, Beware the Midnight Train

“There's a reason that education sucks.
And it's the same reason
that it will never ever, ever be fixed.

It's never going to get any better,
don't look for it,
be happy with what you got.

Because the owners of this country don't want that.

I'm talking about the real owners now.
The real owners.
The big, wealthy business interests that control things
and make all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians.
The politicians are put there
to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.

You don't.

You have no choice.
You have owners.
They own you.
They own everything.

They own all the important land.
They own and control the corporations.
They've long since bought and paid for the Senate,
the Congress, the state houses, and city halls.
They got the judges in their back pocket.
And they own all the big media companies
so they control just about
all of the news and information you get to hear.
They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying,
lobbying to get what they want.
Well, we know what they want.
They want more for themselves and less for everybody else.

But I'll tell you what they don't want.
They don't want a population
of citizens capable of critical thinking.
They don't want well-informed, well-educated people,
capable of critical thinking.

They're not interested in that.
That doesn't help them.
That's against their interest.
That's right.

They don't want people who are smart enough
to figure out how badly they're getting fucked
by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
They don't want that.

You know what they want?
They want obedient workers.
Obedient workers.
People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork
and just dumb enough, to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs,
with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits,
the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension
that disappears the minute you go to collect it.

And now, they're coming for your Social Security money.
They want your fucking retirement money.
They want it back,
so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

And you know something, they'll get it.
They'll get it all from you, sooner or later,
because they own this fucking place.

It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
You and I are not in the big club.”
― George Carlin, Life Is Worth Losing

“And like you always say, the fact that someone is born a human being doesn’t mean he’ll act like one.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
― Howard Zinn