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“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily disenfranchised, we now present ourselves to the rest of the world as proud, grinning, jut-jawed, pitiless war-lovers with appalling powerful weaponry - who stand unopposed.
In case you haven't noticed, we are now as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazi's once were.
And with good reason.
In case you haven't noticed, our unelected leaders have dehumanized millions and millions of human beings simply because of their religion and race. We wound 'em and kill 'em and torture 'em and imprison 'em all we want.
Piece of cake.
In case you haven't noticed, we also dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class.
Send 'em anywhere. Make 'em do anything.
Piece of cake.
The O'Reilly Factor.
So I am a man without a country, except for the librarians and a Chicago paper called "In These Times."
Before we attacked Iraq, the majestic "New York Times" guaranteed there were weapons of destruction there.
Albert Einstein and Mark Twain gave up on the human race at the end of their lives, even though Twain hadn't even seen the First World War. War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?
Like my distinct betters Einstein and Twain, I now give up on people too. I am a veteran of the Second World War and I have to say this is the not the first time I surrendered to a pitiless war machine.
My last words? "Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse."
Napalm came from Harvard. Veritas!
Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler.
What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations and made it all their own?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

“When we black women repeat our words, you know shit is bad.”
― Tiffany Haddish, The Last Black Unicorn

“You just keep thinking, Butch; that's what you're good at.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Most of us have only one story to tell. I don’t mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there’s only one that matters, only one finally worth telling.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“Butch: Y'know, when I was a kid, I always figured on being a hero when I grew up.
Sundance: Too late now.
Butch: You didn't have to say that—what'd you have to say that for?”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Not that it matters, but most of what follows is true.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Maybe the times I couldn't move were the times I needed to take better care of myself.”
― nagata kabi, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“It's just a book. It's not supposed to happen.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Something's got you panicked and it's too late. You may be the biggest thing ever to hit this area, but in the long run, you're just two-bit outlaws. I never met a soul more affable than you, Butch, or faster than the Kid, but you're still nothing but a couple of two-bit outlaws on the dodge... —you just want to hide out till it's old times again, but it's over. It's over, don't you get that? It's over and you're both gonna die bloody, and all you can do is choose where.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“That educated didn’t mean smart. He had a point. Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“Lincoln was shot by a two-bit actor who was exercising his right to bear arms.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

“As your trusted Indian scout, it is important for me to warn you that you are now on perilously thin ice”
― Craig Johnson, Junkyard Dogs

“She resembled Anna Karenina, the kind of woman that if you want to kill, you have to hit with a train.”
― Craig Johnson, Junkyard Dogs

“The desire for revenge is an acid that destroys everything it touches.”
― Amanda Quick, Close Up

“You kill them with your success. Then they’ll have to kiss your motherfucking feet.”
― Tiffany Haddish, The Last Black Unicorn

“I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
― Tupac Shakur

“If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.”
― Tupac Shakur

“Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.”
― Tupac Shakur

“Good Grief
Let your
heart break

so your spirit
doesn't.”
― Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

“I will refuse to call it heaven
if the people I love
(who put me through hell)

aren't there.”
― Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

“On the worst days, I feel fine. On the best days, I know I am not.”
― Charles Yu, Sorry Please Thank You

“Loneliness is an orchid by the stream
Which I wish to pluck and give to someone
Someone is far, far away.”
― Dominic Cheung (Chang Ts'o), Drifting

“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?”
― Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light