"Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history."

-- Helen McCloy

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“The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should start the engagement process. Once you know this, the nature of the relationship changes. You view actions differently, the pressure to have sex increases, and your relationship with others is affected. If you're considering getting engaged, write out the sentence Staying married is hard work fifty times. ...Though I say this with some humor, I think these points bear repeating: Don't underestimate the work involved, but don't panic either.”
“Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.”
“I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.”
“As long as these blood brothers are our leaders, and as long as your party officials are Jewish lackeys, you will be no threat to the big money men.”
“You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord.”
“Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.”
“I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,â€ Marcus said. â€œCharity toward whom?â€ â€œToward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldnâ€™t make a world better than this,”

Source : Daniel Abraham (2011). “The Dragon's Path: Book 1 of The Dagger and the Coin”, p.104, Hachette UK
“You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.”

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