"Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity."

-- Dean Koontz

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“For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.”
“I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel,”

Source : "Love Me, Hate Me, Just Don't Ignore Me". Interview with Nancy Hass, www.gq.com. January 19, 2012.
“All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.”
“... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers saw that file. They might as well have tattooed CRAZY on your forehead. The next year every teacher would be watching you for the first weird thing you didâ€”and has there ever been a kid who never does anything an adult considers weird?”

Source : John Barnes (2009). “Tales of the Madman Underground”, p.15, Penguin
“You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving.”
“Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.”
“I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.”
“The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.”

Source : Greg Iles (2009). “The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel”, p.586, Simon and Schuster

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