"And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?"

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Source : Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.144, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Jeff Lindsay

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“There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.”

Source : Dean Young (2005). “Elegy On Toy Piano”, University of Pittsburgh Press
“The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.”

Source : Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”
“First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.”
“The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.”
“By the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while heâ€™s talking, but my response is this: heâ€™s just angry because the president doesnâ€™t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?”

Source : "Alan Grayson: It’s Hard For Me To Listen To Cheney Speak, He’s Like A Vampire" by Elyse Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“You put a group of people in that come from a variety of backgrounds and who are out there in the world with different opinions and different ways of expressing themselves online. It's hard to say.”

Source : "'Big Brother' Bosses Talk Casting Diversity, Lack of Female Winners and Avoiding a Season 15 Repeat". Interview with Brian Porreca, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2016.
“Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.”
“If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.”

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