December 2011
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“All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he...”
– Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The End by Lemony Snicket
Count Olaf: Nowhere in the world is safe
Violet: Not with you around
Count Olaf: I'm no worse than anyone else
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The power of women! I've never felt so full of...
The Collector by John Fowles
“Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most...”
– The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
"Man!" cried Pippin, now thoroughly aroused. "Man!...
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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“ Where did the universe come from, and where is it going?”
– Stephen Hawking, Brief History of Time
“you’ve got to stand up for something or you’ll fall for anything.”
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A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand...
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
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“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled”,...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope (via noratherese)
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Oh! no mortal could support the horror of that...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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“ Like one who,
on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread
and, having once...”
– Ancient Mariner by Coleridge
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“NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this...”
– The Coming of the Martians, The War of the Worlds
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O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there...
Miranda from The Tempest
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“If we shadows have offended
think but this, and all is mended
That you have...”
– Puck, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Our acceptance of lies becomes a cultural cancer...
Stephanie Ericsson on “The Ways We Lie”
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“Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter into hindsight because it concealed...”
– The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
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Reality is not external. Reality exists in the...
GEORGE ORWELL, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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“When a golden girl can win
Prayer from out the lips of sin,
When the barren...”
– The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon: I hope tomorrow will be a fine day, Lane.
Lane: It never is.
Algernon: Lane, you are a perfect pessimist.
Lane: I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.
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“ When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a...”
– The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
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ONCE UPON A TIME, sixty years ago, a little girl...
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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“ There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more...”
– Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature....
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George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops
They’re always talking about what separates the men from the boys. Well, I’m going to tell you what separates the men from the boys. The sodomy laws.
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“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the...”
– Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”
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“And that, ” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret...”
– Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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THE INTOXICATION of success had evaporated; he was...
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley