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- This isn't the sort of thing you can leave to chance. You never know when you might find yourself in some sort of cake emergency.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Everything can be solved through civilized dialogue and implied agony.
- Maritza Campos, College Roomies From Hell!!! Webcomic
- I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
- Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876), God and the State
- Part of the ability to keep writing over the years comes down to living with the expectation of disappointment. It's the exact opposite of capitalism. In capitalism you want your business to succeed, and to the degree it does your energy increases, and you go out and buy an even bigger business. In writing it's almost the exact opposite. You just want to keep the store going. You're not going to do as well this year as last year probably, but nonetheless let's keep the store going. What ruins most writers of talent is that they don't get enough experience, so their novels tend to develop a certain paranoid perfection.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
- Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
- Tupac Shakur
- All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), On the Improvement of the Understanding
- When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- Life is shaped by the people you meet every day.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Living in the ocean means never having to salt your food.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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