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“Humility can only be born out of humiliation”
― Jean Genet, Querelle of Brest

“Memory supplies the place of a mistress”
― Peter Abelard

“In any dispute, it profits one if his adversary thinks him less than fully stable”
― Petronius Jablonski, The Annals of Petronius Jablonski: An Odyssey of Historic Proportions and Priceless Treasure of Philosophy

“To fantasize is to fertilize that dark garden growing inside your head.”
― Valentin V., No More Normies: The First Notebook

“Yes, Roger Ailes, who actually was very funny and who, as far as I know, did not sexually harass anyone during the two hours he was with us. Between”
― Al Franken, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

“As the polls began closing in the East, with states like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Virginia going for Barack Obama, it was quickly becoming clear that this would be an especially bad night for racists all across the country.”
― Al Franken, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

“It was almost as if the incoming commander-in-chief had some sort of mental health problem. The kind of mental health problem that you would be disturbed to discover in your kid’s piano teacher, let alone the president of the United States of America”
― Al Franken, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

“But now we seem to have entered an era where getting caught lying openly and shamelessly, lying in a manner that insults the intelligence of both your friends and foes, lying about lying, and lying for the sake of lying have all lost their power to damage a politician. In fact, the “Trump Effect” yields the opposite result: Trump supporters seem to approve of the fact that he lies constantly, including to them.”
― Al Franken, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

“Virtually everyone in the world believes that climate change is real and is caused by human beings, except Republicans in the United States. Especially the people who would know best: 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and caused by human activity, and I suspect the other 3 percent are being paid by the fossil fuel industry”.”
― Al Franken, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

“But can love born of revenge avoid turning into cruel sport?”
― Shintarō Ishihara, 男の粋な生き方

“Several groups of male students were caught punching each other in the testicles with great force during lunch. They claimed they were playing a game called ‘sack tapping.”
― Jane Morris, Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, Special Snowflakes, and Other Bullshit

“I would just like to add that it is perfectly okay for students to wear animal costumes in class, but hats are strictly forbidden.”
― Jane Morris, Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, Special Snowflakes, and Other Bullshit

“Stubborn people make the best lovers. You tell them no, they say yes, you tell them get lost, they hang around, you get a restraining order, they get a megaphone...Eventually you have to kill them or marry them.”
― Benjamin Smith, June Cleaver: Sexual Deviant

“A woman may not be able to be made more beautiful than she is, but she can always be more glamorous”
― Nesly Clerge, The Anatomy of Cheating

“When a man says ‘for better or worse’ he’s thinking of circumstances life brings his way that he and his wife work through together. Not the worst in his woman.”
― Nesly Clerge, The Anatomy of Cheating

“Our bloodlust to destroy as much of Nature as possible will be exposed for what it is: the jealous rage of a failed artist bent on destroying the one standard against which his tinkerings will always seem derivative, tawdry, laughable, as nothing at all.”
― Petronius Jablonski, Some Call It Trypophobia

“..few spectacles are more instructive than a child bullying another. This behavior is not taught and cannot be suppressed. Pick a period in history. Any. Read about the wars the gruesome tactics, how the victors treated the vanquished. These are patterns in the grain of human nature.”
― Petronius Jablonski, Some Call It Trypophobia

“Youth is the hardest time in life. One seldom hears of an old person committing suicide.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“But when we see anyone who suffers and is unruly in his suffering, we should overlook that and try to help him.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“Personally, I have more respect for the serious student, the one who never got into trouble in the first place. But those kids never get the starring roles, either on TV or in real life.”
― Kinae Minato

“Rule of thumb I came to realize: dilapidated, old building = real building with actual DPRK inhabitants; modern, new building = fakery built to make NoKo look normal.”
― wendy e. simmons, My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth

“Travel makes the world smaller.”
― Wendy E. Simmons, My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth

“Like I’m going to go from shooting a movie back to pretending to slap myself in the face while some guy pretends he’s ejaculating on double D tits. I’m officially too fancy for that.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“...few people visit Niagara alone, unless they are suicidal...”
― Michael Clarkson, The River of Lost Souls: What We Might Learn From Niagara Falls Suicides

“It has long been a dictum of warfare that forewarned is forearmed.”
― Malcolm Nance, The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election

“Never tickle a girl when she has diarrhea”
― David Spade, Almost Interesting

“I've never heard girls get loud during sex; whenever I look down at them they just say 'continue”
― David Spade, Almost Interesting

“Oscar was a pig, and he was the SAE mascot. We were informed that the worst pledge of the semester would be fucking Oscar the night we became active. Yes. You read that right, folks! Fucking a pig! This was something I was positive had not come up during rush week”
― David Spade, Almost Interesting

“I have always had a great need for solitude. I require huge swathes of loneliness and when I do not have it, which has been the case for the last five years, my frustration can sometimes become almost panicked, or aggressive.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle: Book 1

“If there is any message I want you to take from this book, it is that befriending a parrot can be both frustrating and infinitely rewarding.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding