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“He was experimenting with being ardently sympathetic with everybody he met. He thought that might make the world a slightly more pleasant place to live in. He called Billy's mother ‘dear’. He was experimenting with calling everybody dear.”

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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“I put on my best shirt because the painting looked so bad. Color bleeds, so make it work for you. Gravity pulls, so make it work for you. Rubbing your feet at night or clutching your stomach in the morning.”

Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede by Richard Siken

#Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede #Richard Siken #Quote #Poetry #War of the Foxes

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“‘This is wonderful!’ ‘This is going to be fine!’ ‘I love this!’ I was soon to change my mind, however.”

Troubled Birds by Matt Adrian

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“That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.”

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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“Jesse, listen to me. Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

Breaking Bad

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“...there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin—who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.”

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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“Where do you transact your business? Enlighten me.” “I don’t know, how about Taco Cabeza? Half the deals I’ve ever done went down at Taco Cabeza. Nice and public, open 24 hours. Nobody ever gets shot at Taco Cabeza.”

Breaking Bad

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“Most times it all comes out wrong. I don’t know the words, but I’ll hum along. There’s nothing familiar here anymore to anyone or anything enough to feel alive.”

Alibis by Marianas Trench

#Alibis #Marianas Trench #Quote #Song #Fix Me

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“And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs.”

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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“Burn hard, burn hard, smoldering pieces landing in the yard. Trace names in ash, big names, old friends and dead ends.”

Luna by The Mountain Goats

#Luna #The Mountain Goats #Quote #Song #Beat the Champ

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“Dude, it’s called breakage, okay? Like K-Mart. Shit breaks.” “And you’re thinking this is acceptable?” “It’s the cost of business, yo.”

Breaking Bad

#Breaking Bad #Quote #Television

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“In the beginning there was crying, in the middle there was confusion, in the end there was silence.”

Barbara Kruger

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“Who are those who will forever remain mute out of fear? Who? Who? No one. On the following day, no one. Dawn broke on the plaza cleanly swept; the newspapers spoke of the weather as their main story.”

Memorandum on Tlatelolco by Rosario Castellanos, translated by Maureen Ahern

#Memorandum on Tlatelolco #Rosario Castellanos #Maureen Ahern #A Rosario Castellanos Reader #Quote #Poetry

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“Rushing ashore to meet her, foaming with loneliness, white hands to fondle and beat her, give her his only-ness.”

Run by Hozier

#Run #Hozier #Quote #Song

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“For two boys to come this close to each other in a realm ruled by the nebulous yet narrow laws of American masculinity, we needed magic.”

Reimagining Masculinity by Ocean Vuong

#Reimagining Masculinity #Ocean Vuong #Quote #Poetry

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“The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.”

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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“...we often appeal to holes for casual interactions, or to explain the occurrence of certain events. (‘The water ran out because of the hole in the bucket.’)”

What We Talk About When We Talk About Holes by Evelyn Lamb

#What We Talk About When We Talk About Holes #Evelyn Lamb #Quote #Book