“The mistake we make is in thinking rape isnt premeditated, that it happens by accident somehow, that youre drunk and you run into a girl whos also drunk and half-asleep on a bench and you sidle up ...”

— Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

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“I've never, ever, ever -- in my entire life -- fought over a man. I've fought women who've hit me because of a man, but then I was fighting to bust her ass, not defend his.”

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

fighting humor

“I could still feel the echo of his hand on mine.”

— I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

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“There is no better teacher than adversity”

— there is none wiser than its student.

Matshona Dhliwayo

“I'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many follies and extravagances, but, believe me, I've long since out-grown them! I don...”

— Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

bad-behavior gossip

“There is always hope if we keep an unsolved problem fairly in view”

— there’s none if we pretend it’s not there.

C.S. Lewis The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“Famous people steal my quotes all of the time without knowing”

— none of it is ever very interesting though.

Robert DeCoteau The New Days: The First Son

“Some books are undeservedly forgotten”

— none are undeservedly remembered.

W.H. Auden The Dyer's Hand

“What doesthis F. — I.W. mean?”“Initial-slang,” informed Baines. “Made correctby common usage. It has become a worldwidemotto. You’ll see it all over the place if you haven’tnoticed it already.”“I h...”

— Eric Frank Russell, . . . And Then There Were None

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“Good composition is like a suspension bridge”

— each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

Robert Henri

“When Sweetu wasn’t being reduced to merely existing as a bride, as a piece of meat to be handled and prodded, to have decorative contraptions stuck into her skull, her interests were otherwise unex...”

— Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

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“If Indian weddings for Indian people are the furthest from “fun,” trips to India for Indian people are the furthest from “vacation.” When I told my friends about the upcoming trip, everyone purred ...”

— Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

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“Only the dead do not need wisdom”

— none who are living can survive without it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

“You must feed them, Anne, else they eat their toys.”

— Susan Kaye, None But You

children humor

“It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering”

— it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.

Émile Durkheim

“Life has a plan for each of us”