"Freak the ferocious out."

-- Marisha Pessl

“In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.”
“For the most part, as a society, we are not happy with ourselves.”

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“If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.”
“Every player wants to be as complete as possible and goals for a central midfielder are very important.”
“But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.”
“Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.”
“The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.”
“My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.”

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