“Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“People don't hate each other. They hate each other's ideas.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“Peer pressure is when you decide to lob a few warheads at this week's Nazi because CNN told you to.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“Hate is not wrong when you hate what is wrong.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
“It was sort of my own personal apocalypse.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
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“Here am I, sweating my brains out to introduce a really sensational incident into your dull and disreputable little police investigation, and you refuse to show a single spark of enthusiasm.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, quote from Whose Body?
“Mother, have you noticed that this society we’re in tends to be a little…repressive?”
“What does that mean, Eugenie? What does that mean, that strange new word, ‘repressive,’ that I have never heard before?”
“It means…it’s like when you decide to do something, and you get up out of your chair to do it, and you take a step, and then become aware of frosty glances being directed at you from every side.”
“Frosty glances?”
“Your desires are stifled.”
“What desires are you talking about?”
“Just desires in general. Any desires. It’s a whole…I guess atmosphere is the…word…a tendency on the part of the society…”
“You’d better sew some more pillow cases, Eugenie.”
― Donald Barthelme, quote from Sixty Stories
“Meeting a Zen master on the road, Face him neither with words nor silence. Give him an uppercut And you will be called one who understands Zen.”
― quote from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
“His eyes were anything but friendly, the color of bitter storms.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Sea Swept
“After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from A Civil Contract
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