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Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have… — Thomas Paine
I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I… — Steve Martin
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads.… — Kurt Vonnegut
Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold… — Jodi Picoult
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it… — Jane Austen
Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But… — Nick Hornby
Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things… — Elizabeth Bishop
It's not enough to look for the truth, however a noble journey that might be. [...] You must be able to say "yes" to what… — David Zindell
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. — Samuel Johnson
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon… — William Butler Yeats
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. — Ayn Rand
Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the… — Helene Cixous
You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing… — George Orwell
In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born… — Diana Wynne Jones
You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of… — Virginia C. Andrews
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. — Philip Roth
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. — George Orwell
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books… — Oscar Wilde
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad,… — Douglas Coupland
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over… — P.J. O'Rourke
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system… — Woodrow Wilson
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most… — Richard Paul Evans
It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just… — J D Salinger
Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and… — Matthew Scully

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