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“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

tags: fate

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“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: passion

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“You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify”
― Stephen King, From a Buick 8

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“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: acknowledgement, honor, virtue

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