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“She'd asked him what it was like to be in there, doing nothing but then being woken up to speak to somebody you couldn't see. He'd said that it was like being woken from a deep and satisfying sleep...”
“Ferbin's father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as hed had of everything else. In his opinion, only the very poor and downtrodden really needed religion, to make their laboriou...”
“Ferbins father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as hed had of everything else. In his opinion, only the very poor and downtrodden really needed religion, to make their laborious...”
“The point is: what happens in heaven?''Unknowable wonderfulness?' 'Nonsense. The answer is nothing. Nothing can happen because if something happens, in fact if something can happen, then it doesn't...”
“That's what you do when you love someone. You accept their baggage and deal with the shit life throws at you along the way. You just learn to become a team and deal with it together. That's the onl...”
“I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've...”
“His words put an ache in her heart. She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasnt sure she believed in it anymore. It was why she c...”
“Could be I've finally gone crazy, but men crazier than me have done greater things than I've ever dreamed, so we'll see where it takes me." ~ Tom Parker, Imagination Stone”
“When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.”
“Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.”
“I live for those who love me, for those who know me true; for the heaven that smiles above me and awaits my spirit too. For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance, for...”
“One hates a person for the same reason one loves him”
“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism ...”
“Oh, no, Cameron; I believe we're born free of sin and free of guilt. It's just that we all catch it, eventually. There are no clean rooms for morality, Cameron, no boys in bubbles kept in a guilt-f...”
“Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?Well I would if youd let me finish, he grumbled.”
“Things mean pretty much what we want them to mean.”
“Lying here, during all this time after my own small fall, it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much what we want them to mean. Well pluck significance from the least consequential ha...”
“Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, 'nothing' is the far more likely outcome...”
“I love the confidence that makeup gives me.”
“[I]t would be a niceness that was enforced leniently, patiently and gracefully, with the sort of unflappable self-certainty [they] couldn't help displaying when all its statistics proved that it re...”
