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As well as religion, human history is full of depressing things like colonisation, disease, racism, sexism, homophobia, class snobbery, environmental destruction, slavery, totalitarianism, military dictatorships, inventions of things which they have no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semi-colon), the victimisation of clever people, the worshipping of idiotic people, boredom, despair, periodic collapses, and catastrophes within the psychic landscape. — Matt Haig

Papa died when he was 77. — Manolo Blahnik

If there were two things Silas McFuller knew about the world, it was that life is not always fair, but everything happens for a reason. — Megan Duke

A group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done — Fred Allen

Chapter 8 Dirty Deeds — Yoshe

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope. — Abraham Lincoln

The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities — Ole Hallesby

The darkness is like a black canvas punctured by a blunt knife, with beams of light peeking through. — Tahereh Mafi

The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment. — Guo Guangchang

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two. — James Maslow

I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of waxy blooms. So what did they need poison for? Couldn't they just be bitter? They weren't like rattlesnakes, they didn't even eat what they killed. The way she boiled it down, distilled it, like her hatred. Maybe it was a poison in the soil, something about L.A., the hatred, the callousness, something we didn't want to think about, that the plant concentrated in its tissues. Maybe it wasn't a source of poison, but just another victim. — Janet Fitch

He adds, wistfully, "I don't suppose you have syphilis, do you?"
"No."
"Pity. There's a study starting in Alabama that would have paid for all your medical care if you did. Although you'd have to be a Negro."
"I'm not that, either."
"Too bad." The doctor shrugs. — Lauren Beukes

Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to your vehicle. We all have a vehicle. Whether it's a thug, or a school child or the babyface or the sex siren or the video vin, whatever it is ride that until the wheels fall off and eventually, if you build your foundation then you can branch off. — Michael K. Williams

Anthony Patch had ceased to be an individual of mental adventure, of curiosity, and had become an individual of bias and prejudice, with a longing to be emotionally undisturbed. — F Scott Fitzgerald