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“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”
― Miranda July

“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“i got 15 trumpets where other women got hips
& a upright bass for both sides of my heart”
― Ntozake Shange, I Live in Music: Poem

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

“What fresh hell is this?”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.”
― Art Spiegelman

“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”
― John Berger

“I could kill a dog with a brick! I shouted to no one when I was done.”
― Patrick Cottrell , Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

“Once they’d sorted out the hundred ‘instructions,’ the population came to believe, as they did in God, that the Krugal campaign was handing out free money.”
― Olga Slavnikova, The Man Who Couldn't Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being