February 2012
23 posts
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The woman I love doesn't know I love her. You want...
Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut
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Pictures are famous for their humanness, not for...
Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut
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"If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at...
Paper Towns, John Green
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“There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when...”
– Looking for Alaska, John Green
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“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and...”
– Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky
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“What, now I don’t have a sense of humor? But I’m grumpy, because...”
– Water for Elephants
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“There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on...”
– Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto
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In the beginning there was absolutely nothing, and...
Timequake
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WE ARE ONLY AS HEALTHY TO THE EXTEND THAT OUR...
Breakfast for Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
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The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was...
Breakfast for Champions Kurt Vonnegut
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“It would really suit you, wouldn’t it, to leave things undecided forever?...”
– Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
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“Her adorable profile, parted lips, warm hair were some three inches from my...”
– Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
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Eliot did to the word love what the Russians did...
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
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Ape descendants are never proud of their ancestors...
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
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“A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum...”
– God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
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I mean at some point you gotta stop looking up at...
Paper Towns, John Green
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“Funny thing, talking to ghosts. You can’t tell if you’re making up...”
– Looking for Alaska, John Green
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The thing was that Earth was the only place in the...
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
January 2012
31 posts
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“Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is...”
– Paper Towns, John Green
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Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being in...
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person...
Paper Towns, John Green
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“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be...”
– Paper Towns, John Green
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“The fact that Guinevere seems not to know Leo is alive causes him no particular...”
– “The Best Girlfriend You Never Had”, Pam Houston
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The Rules of the Game
Me: Ma, what is Chinese torture?
Mom: Who say this word?
Me: Some boy in my class said Chinese people do Chinese torture.
Mom: Chinese people do many things. Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.
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The handwritten sign informed tourists, 'Within...
“The Rules of the Game”, Amy Tan
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“On the basis of his reading, don Guillermo concluded that the five senses...”
– “The Immortals” Jorge Luis Borges
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“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.They weren’t only equal...”
– “Harrison Bergeron”, Kurt Vonnegut
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We study the problem and we've been studying it...
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
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“Wake up son, wake up my beauty. Wake up to real trouble.”
– A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Demolisher: Mr. Dent?
Arthur: Yes, hello.
Demolisher: Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?
Arthur: How much?
Demolisher: None, at all.
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She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing...
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
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“Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people...”
– A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those...
The Inferno, Dante
“Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian’s fault. The country was...”
– Joseph Heller Catch 22
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"Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how...
Sophocles, Antigone
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“The thing is some girls think they can actually change guys. And what’s...”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
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“ He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it. ”
– Joseph Heller Catch-22
“ There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin...”
– The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
