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NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It's so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? Those are important questions, I guess. But they're not that important. You know what's important? Who would you die for? Who do you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you? Whose drunken nose would you pick?!
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John Green (Will Grayson, Will Grayson)
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Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open."
Have you been watching Oprah again?
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James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (Maximum Ride, #3))
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Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
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Leo Tolstoy (Война и мир)
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You’re mad,” I said. “You know what he can do. No prize is worth that.”
Sturmhond grinned. “That remains to be seen.”
“The Darkling will hunt you for the rest of your days.”
“Then you and I will have something in common, won’t we? Besides, I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”
Mal crossed his arms and considered the privateer. “I can’t decide if you’re crazy or stupid.”
“I have so many good qualities,” Sturmhond said. “It can be hard to choose.
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Leigh Bardugo (Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2))
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I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me.
So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is.
It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.
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Jeanette Winterson (Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?)
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It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry, you will someday.
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Alan Ball (American Beauty: The Shooting Script)
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Pigrum quin immo et iners videtur sudore adquirere quod possis sanguine parare.
(Nay, they actually think it tame and stupid to acquire by the sweat of toil what they might win by their blood.)
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Tacitus (The Agricola and The Germania)
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Because all the characters in this story—like all of humanity, apparently—have a little blank spot in their heads that says, “Kings. What a good idea.” The idea is powerful, and seductive, and should not be underestimated. To be a civilization of any worth, however, means acknowledging the idea—and then condemning it as laughably, madly stupid. May we come to live in such a worthier world, and soon.
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Robert Jackson Bennett (A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2))
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It’s not like we can keep this a secret forever, right? One day Alice and Jerry are going to start to notice that Otter and I live together and spend every waking moment together, and even if they don’t notice that, there’s no way they’re not going to be able see what happens when I look at him. Jesus, it’s a dead fucking giveaway because I get that stupid, goofy grin on my face and… and…. What the hell are you all staring at?”
“Who are you and what have you done with Bear?” Creed asks, eyes wide.
“Aw,” Anna says sweetly. “You love him.
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T.J. Klune (Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2))
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You’d be better off dead, Rinny, than to spend another moment in this stupid world. They told me that. They said I’m saving you. It’s what friends do, right? Sirena?
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K.G. Reuss (Church (The Boys of Chapel Crest, #1))