"There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope."

-- Bethany Cosentino

#Reality Quotes #Insane Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Jews can make more money accidentally than you can on purpose,”
“Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.”

Source : Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.84, Macmillan
“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage
“I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.”
“It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.”
“The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.”
“Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.”
“I am a private human.”

Source : "Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend" by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, www.nytimes.com. January 2, 2013.

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