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“He saw her hair flung loose over her shoulders, and said, "If so charming in disorder, what would it be if arranged?”
― Anonymous

“Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“So long, old pal. You’re going to a different world now. It’s sure to be a better one, since no other world could be as bad as this one is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“There are all these people bragging about how they’re survivors, as though that’s something very special. But the only kind of person who can’t say that is a corpse.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course. It’s just fun to think about.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Yes, but what is it good for? What does it mean?” Her look was full of pity. “If you have to ask that question, you wouldn’t understand the answer.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“A toast! To the road! May it lead to adventure and carry us safely back home.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“If it’s not worth making beautiful,” Valiha said, “it’s not worth making.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“I wasn’t around, and I guess if I had been, I would have been part of the oppressor class and think it was the way things should be. But I have been told that things are a lot better now. I won’t say they’re perfect. Things don’t get perfect. But most of the women I know are happy. They don’t think there’s many battles left to fight.” “You’d better stop there,” Robin cautioned. “Most women have always been happy with the way things were, or at least they said so. That goes back to before peckish society allowed women to vote. Just because we of the Coven believe some things that I now know are overstated or incorrect, don’t draw the conclusion that we are foolish about everything. We know that the majority is always willing to let things remain as they are until they are led to something better. A slave may not be happy with her lot, but most do nothing to improve it. Most do not believe it can be improved.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“no matter how tough you think you are, thought you were, you haven’t been around long enough to be tested in many, many ways.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“If she must face the fact that she was fearful, she would also face the fear and overcome it.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“But I don’t believe in heroes anymore. I just believe in people coping with their lives as best they can. You do what you have to do, and in some ways you have no more choice about it than a rock has about falling from a high place.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“He could put up a gruff front and he was no angel, but he was really just trying to hide his sensitivities so that he could hang on to them.”
― Norah Vincent, Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again

“Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently”
― Norah Vincent, Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again

“It was the woman’s job to be on the defensive, because past experience had taught her to be. It was the guy’s job to be on the offensive, because he had no choice. It was that or never meet at all.”
― Norah Vincent, Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again

“How heavy is that day in the mountains when you built a campfire and saw a shooting star? What is the mass of yesterday? How fast is love?”
― John Varley, Demon

“Wordsworth also said that the best part of a person’s life is “his little, nameless, unremembered, acts of kindness and of love.” I”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“a vast collection of electric charges in violent motion.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“In a minute there is time  For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot: Best 3 Poems

“Talking to her now was like flailing his hands at a storm of hornets. It did nothing, and it stung, and yet he couldn’t stop himself.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“I sha'n't catch up in this world, anyway. I'd rather you'd not go unless you must.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“But you are to remain mistress of your own heart and your own person. You see, I believe there are ways to win a woman's love far better than buying her cheap when she is starved into selling in this brutal fashion.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night