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“It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.”
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“You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.”
Source : Nell Freudenberger (2012). “The Newlyweds”, p.207, Vintage
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“I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.”
Source : "Julie Brown: Being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 20, 2010. 
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“It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.”
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“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”
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“The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.”
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“You're dumber than you think I think you are.”
Source : Robert Towne (1997). “Chinatown ; The Last Detail: Screenplays”, p.119, Grove Press
