Quotes from Rumble Fish

“Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish

“I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I did...I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish

“Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish

“California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish

“Yeah," I said. "And I'm gonna look just like him."
The black cat paused and looked me over.
"No you ain't baby. That cat is a prince, man. He is royalty in exile. You ain't never gonna look like that.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish

“He had strange eyes-they make me think of a two-way mirror. Like you could feel somebody on the other side watching you, but the only reflections you saw was your own.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish

“I could never understand people being scared of things they didn't know nothing about.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish

“If you're going to lead people, you have to have somewhere to go.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from Rumble Fish

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“Can I ask a stupid question?"
"Sure. Ask away."
"It's sort of more than one question. But... Look, um... Why do we hurt? Why do we die? Why isn't life good all the time? Why isn't it fair?"
"Those aren't stupid questions, Hazel. For some people they're the only questions that matter."
"Does that mean you won't answer them?"
"Sure, I'll answer. But it's kind of a big subject, and it's got lots of answers, and the answers don't really mean anything-- They aren't stupid questions but they could just as well be 'When is purple?' or 'Why does Thursday?', if you see what I mean..."
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"Well, I think some of it is probably contrasts. Light and Shadow. If you never had the bad times, how would you know you had the good times? But some of it is just: If you're going to be Human, then there are a whole load of things that come with it. Eyes, a Heart, Days and Life.
It's the moments that illuminate it, though. The times you don't see when you're having them... They make the rest of it matter.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Death: The Time of Your Life

“Our mind and our language are very clumsy instruments and we have to deal with very subtle matters and subtle problems. At the same time we do not realize that by simplifying things, by imagining ourselves in a three-dimensional world, we make this world non-existent. We put ourselves in an impossible position, because if we take, for instance, the ordinary view of the past disappearing and the future not yet existent, then nothing exists. This is the only conclusion from this idea that is logically possible: either nothing exists or everything exists— there is no third alternative, so to speak.”
― P.D. Ouspensky, quote from The Fourth Way

“Franklin’s inquisitive mind craved stimulation, consistently gravitating toward whatever community of intellects asked the most intriguing questions; his expansive temperament sought souls that resonated with his own generosity and sense of virtue. In five years in England he had found more of both than in a lifetime in America. “Of all the enviable things England has,” he told Polly Stevenson, “I envy most its people. Why should that petty island, which compared to America is but like a stepping stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one’s shoes dry; why, I say, should that little island enjoy in almost every neighbourhood more sensible, virtuous and elegant minds than we can collect in ranging 100 leagues of our vast forests?” He left such people reluctantly and, he trusted, temporarily.”
― H.W. Brands, quote from The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

“Now, like all the other schools I’ve ever attended, the hallways of Long Beach Middle School are plastered with all sorts of NO BULLYING posters. There’s only one problem: Bullies, it turns out, don’t read too much. I guess reading really isn’t a job requirement in the high-paying fields of name-calling, nose-punching, and atomic-wedgie-yanking.”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

“ان نظام ما بعد الشمولية يلاحق الانسان بمبرراته في كل خطوة يخطوها تقريبا. يلاحقه بالطبع مرتديا قفازات الأيديولوجية. فالحياة فيه متشابكة كنسيج طحلباني من الكذب والأدعاء. ان حكومة البيرقراطية تسمى حكومة الشعب, وباسم الطبقة العاملة يتم استعباد الطبقة العاملة, الإذلال المستشري للإنسان يفسر على انه تحرير كامل للإنسان, ويطلق على حجب المعلومات تداول المعلومات, والتلاعب بالقوة التحكم العام في القوة والتعسف في استعمال القوة حفظ النظام العام, وقمع الثقافة تنمية الثقافة. كما يفسر نشر التأثير الامبريالي على انه دعم المضطهدين, والحجر على حرية الرأي على انه اعلى درجات الحرية, وتزوير الانتخابات على أنه قمة الديمقراطية, ومنع حركة التفكير على أنه أفضل اللآراء العلمية العالمية, والاحتلال على انه مساعدة الأشقاء. ان السلطة حبيسة الكاذبين, لذلك عليهم ان يزوروا. يزوروا الماضي والحاضر والمستقبل كما يزرون الاحصائيات. يدعون انهم لا يملكون الآلة الشرطية الجبارة والمهيمنة. يدعون انهم لا يدعون شيء.
ليس مطلوبا من الإنسان ان يصدق هذه التعمية. لكنه يجب ان يتصرف على انه يصدقها او يقبلها صاغرا, او يتعامل بصورة مقبولة مع من يتبعها.
لهذا هو مجبر ان يعيش في الكذب.
انه غير مضطر الى ان يصدق الكذب. يكفي ان يتقبل الحياة بكذبها ويتعايش معه. وبهذا يدعم النظام ويؤيده ويجعل من نفسه جزءا منه.”
― Václav Havel, quote from The Power of the Powerless

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