"I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute."

-- Robert Charles Wilson

#Imitation Quotes #Substitutes Quotes #Convincing Quotes

“I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.”
“A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”
“Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.”
“If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.”
“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”
“She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But sheâ€™s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.”
“I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.”
“Inaction counted as a choice.”

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