"We let them help because they needed it, not us. We didn't let them help us because we needed it, we let them help us because inside of humans is this thing, this unnamed need to feel as if we are usefel in the world. To feel as if we have something significant to contribute.'---Cullen."
John Corey Whaley
"It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness."
Warren Farrell
"Are you saying that the Rebel Alliance were religious terrorists and Yoda was a benefit cheat?"
Dave Turner
"Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up."
Lacey Sturm
"I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core."
Robert Pinsky
"Coincidences happen, but only once."
Anamika Mishra
"The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on."
William Faulkner
"Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow."
François Lelord
"Cinema is a world of imagination."
Marjane Satrapi
"The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness."
Tim O'Brien
"Not getting a straight answer is a straight answer."
Sarvesh Jain
"Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real."
Rodman Philbrick
"Don't give advice unless you're asked."
Amy Alcott
"Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Everyone always blames the monster--but no one ever blames the one who created it. Isn't that right?' He sneered at Moira's limp form. 'Tell me, who is the monster? The creation or the creator? It has to start somewhere."
Jessica Khoury
"I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting."
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