Here are a whole lot of quotes I really like:

Death is cheap and games are just another way of life. (Liz Phair)

I look all around and feel like somebody must be fucking with me. (Liz Phair)

I laughed and bought you a beer, it's too corny to cry. (Indigo Girls)

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, for the darkness of man's heart. (William Golding)

When are you going to learn, if it doesn't apply to me, it doesn't matter? (Murphy Brown)

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping. (Virginia Woolf)

We move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation. (Tom Stoppard)

If Jesus Christ came back today and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. (Hannah and her Sisters)

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. (Dan Quayle)

If I knew what I was doing I sure as fuck wouldn't be here. (Liz Phair)

I am not a pretty girl; that is not what I do. (Ani DiFranco)

When productivity is only whispering, that's good grounds to ignore it. (Beth Lowe)

Man must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. (JFK)

If you vote Republican, does that make you an accomplice to their crimes? (Bongo)

Futility and senseless war pit the reach against the poor, while the cause is buried long before the fight. (Peter, Paul, and Mary)

They can transport my body to school, but they can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it! (Calvin)

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague and murderous pressure of adult conformity. (Maya Angelou)

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to read adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed (Calvin's Dad)

I'm sick of everybody telling me what to do. (Calvin)

You seem to think you're living in a democracy. I'm not asking for your opinion. (My Mom)

I am prepared to meet anyone. Whether they are prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another question. (Mark Twain)

You don't need to visit a madhouse to find a disordered mind. Our planet is the mental institution of the universe, and I just happen to be the leader. (Danah Beard)

Jack looked round for understanding buy found only respect. (William Golding)

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something. (Michael Chrichton)

Discovery is a rape of the natural world. (Michael Chrichton)

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. (Shirley Jackson)

Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.

There is no off position for the genuis switch.

Sickos never scare me. At least they're committed. (Catwoman)

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. The light in the spine does not light on beef and prunes. (Virginia Woolf)

I thought of how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought perhaps how it is worse to be locked in. (Virginia Woolf)

Life for both sexes. . .is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. (Virginia Woolf)

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. (Virginia Woolf)

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me. (Virginia Woolf)

Truth is only that which is taken to be true. (Tom Stoppard)

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. (Tom Stoppard)

We drift down time, clutching at straws. (Tom Stoppard)

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds--if it were a bet you wouldn't take it. (Tom Stoppard)

I wish to god I had been healthier mentally when I decided to make up my mind. (Liz Phair)

Fooled you, didn't I? You thought you'd unhinged me! I kept my reason by reciting the multiplication tables backwards! (TV's Batman)

No life or youth stirred in him as it had stirred in them. (James Joyce)

His childhood was dead, and with it his soul capable of simple joys. (James Joyce)

He saw too clearly his own futile isolation. (James Joyce)

He burned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. (James Joyce)

Mercenaries of the shrine, who are you to speak for god? (Amy Ray)

The flesh is strong, my spirit's stronger. (Amy Ray)

I know I can't be the only whatever I am in the room. (Ani DiFranco)

I'm gonna love you good and strong while my love is good and young. (Amy Ray)

You kiss me like a lover, then you sting me like a viper. (Emily Saliers)

My bitter pill to swallow is the silence that keep, it poisons me, I can't get free. (Emily Saliers)

There's not enough room in this world for my pain. (Emily Saliers)

I guess that's how you started, like a pinprick to my heart. (Emily Saliers)

You put in my hands a loaded gun and then told me not to fire it when you did the things you said were up to me and then accused me of trying to fuck it up. (Liz Phair)

You don't have to be a supermodel to do the animal thing. (Ani DiFranco)

I think god is a self-contained bisexual. (My Mom)

 

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