"Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers."

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Source : "Vernon God Little". Book by D.B.C. Pierre, Act V. Me ves y sufres, January 20, 2003.

#Sky Quotes #Dreamer Quotes #Looks Quotes

“All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing.”
“We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her Â¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.”
“The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.”
“I have a soft spot for bad boys.”
“Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.”
“This opens the door on another chapter of history.”
“We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.”
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”

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