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“My past behaviour makes me cringe.”
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“There are only three people in life you can never fool--pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof.”
Source : Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.25, Spectra
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“About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference shows itself only through holes in the dark.”
Source : Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”
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“Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker.”
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“A lot of the artists that are coming out right now are sticking to the formula of guns, drugs, money, all that other stuff. I'm not from the 'hood, I've never been arrested, I never shot anybody, I never sold drugs,”
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“There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.”
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“Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.”
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“Christian Zionism has become the most powerful and destructive force at work in America today. Influential in shaping Western foreign policy on the Middle East, they are not only inciting hatred between Jews and Muslims but are also the greatest roadblock to lasting peace in the Middle East.”
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“In life beauty perishes, but not in art.”
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“And ‘classically not beautiful’ is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.”
