:) > :)'s Quotes

“Normal' is a concept formed by averages but it changes with education and tolerance.”
― Sara Pascoe, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I like to imagine that those dead, unloved nut jobs became friends under the earth and have their little crazy community where they show one another the kindness they were denied while living.”
― Rob Delaney, Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.

“Up until now he’d been ranting about people meddling in his life, yet here he was attacking me with the same kinds of reproaches that were making him suffer. His argument was falling apart I thought. Maybe people who thought they were being violated felt a bit better when they attacked other people in the same way.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“They will try,” Jasnah said, “to define you by something you are not. Don’t let them. I can be a scholar, a woman, a historian, a Radiant. People will still try to classify me by the thing that makes me an outsider. They want, ironically, the thing I don’t do or believe to be the prime marker of my identity. I have always rejected that, and will continue to do so.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“The real world may from time to time offer us a chance to solve an elegant problem, and the satisfaction that comes with it, but games offer this chance constantly.”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“True sophistication is the ability to fit in anywhere, because you have a broad understanding of and respect for all kinds of people.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

“This is when I learned the art of leaving. I knew if I didn’t get away, I’d be no help to anyone. Freeing yourself is mandatory before you can help to free others.”
― Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela