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#1

“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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#2

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: belief, kindlehighlight, knowledge, manipulation, propoganda, truth

440 likes

#3

“You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal

tags: brothers, comedy, dark, euphemism, label, manipulation

1362 likes

#4

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7793 likes

#5

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

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#6

“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

tags: optimism, security

154 likes

#7

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

4232 likes

#8

“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

1219 likes

#9

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books, infinite-jest

4225 likes

#10

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: freedom, truth

3041 likes

#11

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: life, love

13996 likes

#12

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: identity, originality

6270 likes

#13

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: hate, self-loathing

2878 likes

#14

“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

tags: disdain, looking-down

161 likes

#15

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

5692 likes

#16

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

3733 likes

#17

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
― H.G. Wells

tags: attributed-no-source

315 likes

#18

“Advertising is legitimised lying.”
― H.G. Wells

tags: business, marketing, sales

452 likes

#19

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19434 likes

#20

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

15056 likes

#21

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

9536 likes

#22

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

4222 likes

#23

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secrets

3584 likes

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