Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely, the better. … It’s difficult to hate an idea. … It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group … anything. Anonymous
There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays that she'll let him drop the cape over himself, to be allowed, in the silk-lined darkness, to stay a while longer with...
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Thomas Pynchon
When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.
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Dale Renton
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire the other is to get it.
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Socrates
... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow...
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Hermann Hesse
Time passes: yesterday has gone for ever but tomorrow never comes. Let's make the most of today.
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Robert Ashby
