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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
― Terry Pratchett

“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett

“I whispered to him, 'but Azazeel, you are the cause of evil in the world.'
'Hypa, be sensible. I'm the one who justifies evil. [...]
I am you, and I am them. You see me at hand whenever you want or whenever they want. I'm always available to bear burdens, ward off sins and exonerate every convict. I am the will, the willer and the willed. I am the servant of mankind, the one who incites believers to pursue the threads of their fancies.”
― Youssef Ziedan, عزازيل

“Killing people in the name of religion does not make it religious.”
― Youssef Ziedan, عزازيل

“You want broccoli?" asked Mrs. Korjev.
"Is there orange broccoli?" Sophie asked.
"Green broccoli is good for you, make you strong, like bear."
"But it's not vegan."
"We put on Cheez Whiz, make vegan for you."
"Okay, broccoli," said Sophie.”
― Christopher Moore, Secondhand Souls

“When people start believing that all politicians are liars and crooks, the truly corrupt escape scrutiny, and cynicism grows.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“I still believe that [...] advancing the rights and opportunities of women and girls is the unfinished business of the twenty-first century.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Progress comes from rolling up your sleeves and getting to work.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“When people feel left out, left behind, and left without options, the deep void will be filled by anger and resentment or depression and despair about those who supposedly took away their livelihood or cut in line.
Trump brilliantly tapped into all these feelings.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Yeah, right. I'm finally getting my life together. Too bad I had to die first.”
― Diana Rowland, My Life as a White Trash Zombie

“The pedagogue's mouth watered as he looked upon this sumptuous promise of luxurious winter fare. In his devouring mind's eye, he pictured to himself every roasting-pig running about with a pudding in his belly, and an apple in his mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy; and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.”
― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

“But for a society buit on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“These leisurely conversations always revealed their worship of the same twin deities - love and money, and would drift away from money and love to come back to Chéri and his deplorable upbringing, to his exceptional good looks (“harmless, after all,” as Léa would say) and to his character (“virtually non-existent,” as Léa would say). They had a taste for sharing confidences, and a dislike of new words or ideas, which they satisfied in these long talks.”
― Colette, Cheri and The Last of Cheri

“...the feminine appetite for possession tends to emasculate every living contest, and can reduce a magnificient but inferior male to the status of a courtesan.”
― Colette, The Last of Cheri

“For an instant, Madame Peloux took on her authentic character in her son’s eyes; that is to say, he estimated her at her proper value, a woman high-spirited, all-consuming, calculating and at the same time rash, like a high financier; a woman capable of taking a humorist’s delight in spiteful cruelty. “She is a scourge, certainly,” he said to himself, “and no more. A scourge, but not a stranger.”
― Colette, Cheri and The Last of Cheri

“I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“We’re stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we’re always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments