"Persecution matures young rebels."

-- Han Suyin

#Rebel Quotes #Young Quotes #Persecution Quotes

“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”
“Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is part of the effect of a title like "Poem for" something or other. Matt Rohrer does this a lot in his titles, and I think I might have gotten some of the idea to do this, or at least been reminded of how it can work, from his recent amazing books.”

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“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.”
“Leadership does not mean domination.”
“One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.”
“The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.”
“The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.”
“Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.”

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