"A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why."

-- Amy Chua

#Stress Quotes #Asking Quotes #Authority Quotes

“Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.”
“Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!”
“I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley. I think I'm more intrigued by characters who don't do the right thing and where we are allowed to identify with their shame/dishonesty/envy... whatever.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.”
“Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.”
“Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.”

Source : Jonas Jonasson (2012). “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”, p.59, Hachette UK
“Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.”
“I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.”

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