Quotes from The Old Man and the Wasteland

“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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“يا أجيال البشر، إنكم من وجهة نظري لستم سوى أشباح فإن الواحد منكم يحصل على نصيب من السعادة لا يتعدى المظهر الخادع، ثم ما يلبث أن يذبل ويختفي.”
― Sophocles, quote from Oedipus Rex

“I was just kidding, shuck-face," Minho said. "Let's all go over there. She could have an army of psycho girl ninjas hiding in that shack of hers."

"Psycho girl ninjas?" Newt repeated, his voice showing he was surprised, if not annoyed, by Minho's additude.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Scorch Trials

“Stefan shook his head. Th' lad's got guts , he thought. Not much sense, but guts. ”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Alanna: The First Adventure

“We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, like, say, masturbatory habits (for me, about once a day, usually in the shower), we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our pasts and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself. But it's just the opposite, more is more is more—more bleeding, more giving. These things, details, stories, whatever, are like the skin shed by snakes, who leave theirs for anyone to see. What does he care where it is, who sees it, this snake, and his skin? He leaves it where he molts. Hours, days or months later, we come across a snake's long-shed skin and we know something of the snake, we know that it's of this approximate girth and that approximate length, but we know very little else. Do we know where the snake is now? What the snake is thinking now? No. By now the snake could be wearing fur; the snake could be selling pencils in Hanoi. The skin is no longer his, he wore it because it grew from him, but then it dried and slipped off and he and everyone could look at it.”
― Dave Eggers, quote from A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!”
― Clement C. Moore, quote from The Night Before Christmas

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