Dope.
They sell that shit to schoolkids.
It's worse than that.
How's that?
Schoolkids buy it.


Cormac McCarthy

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Worse than that.
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Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
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there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this CHARLES BUKOWSKI
That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER
This dudes nuttier than squirrel shit."

-Ty Henderson
MADELEINE URBAN
Barter

Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
SARA TEASDALE
Life without Ethan was something worse than a nightmare.
It was real.
So real that I refus...
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But solitude is sadness.'

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There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
There are worse things than the...
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I--buy, and I sell."
"You're a thief.
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i smoke and i drink
and every time i blink
i have a tiny dream

but as bad as i am ...
ANI DIFRANCO
i like my body when it is with your
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Muscles better and n...
E.E. CUMMINGS
Damn."

"I know."

"I mean seriously...damn."

"Yeah."

"...
SEANAN MCGUIRE
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It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.
Go see a shrink ...
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All day I feel its soft, feathery tur...
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"No wonder t...
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No.'
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CARRIE VAUGHN
Worse even
than your maddening
song, your silence." -
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The day I became a writer
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in exchange for one of ...
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Who dares deny that this is true:
The whole is more than all its parts?
A whole love than div...
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I promise you
I will try harder
to be better.
I
have battled with things
...
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I am
Mavis Elizabeth Betterly.
I am
used to hard work.
I can
run a househol...
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Nothing can escape death.
Not even the Sun.
Not even the Earth.
Not even the unive...
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Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk
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and i...
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there is a place in the heart that
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a space

and even ...
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ADULTHOOD:
IT CAN EASILY BE
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or WORSE
mistaken FOR SOMETHING ROBERT WESLEY MILLER
I hold it true that thoughts are things
Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings,
And that w...
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Well, if pirates are bad,
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Then I pray that as long as I be
Th...
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They really are something else together."

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Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cl...
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If you hate it... you close it!
If you can't do it... you don't do it...!
...

D...
DEYTH BANGER
Z: "You know, this was a hell of a lot easier when you were out cold in the back of that truck."
J.R. WARD
The bus here because they lost Rosa Parks's bus."

"Who lost Rosa Parks's bus?"

PAUL BEATTY
You prank me


You fuck with me


You screw me up

…...
DEYTH BANGER
You'd sell out too if you had half a chance."

Kumo snorted and shook her head. "You can't...
MISHA
On Lego's

"Listen, I don't want to stifle your creativity, but that thing you built there...
JUSTIN HALPERN
if i

or anybody don't
know where it her his

my next meal's coming from...
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For me,
you are fresh water
that falls from trees
when it has stopped raining. For me...
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BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL BRAND
IS CONVINCING THE FULL BELLY
THAT IT IS STILL HUNGRY AND HAS ...
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they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
He curled his claw into a fist. "I'd like to shove a stake up that bastard's ass."

Adam's...
JAYE WELLS
They tell us the only way to move on
is to forget.
“Forgive,” they say.
Realise ...
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Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"

"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
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I could be worse, you know."

"How?" I asked, teasing.

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You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.
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THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUY
Manners
Morals
Respect
Trust
Patience
Class
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She walks,
on the streets,
with a face that,
doesn't belong.
It smiles more than...
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Elm

BY SYLVIA PLATH

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap r...
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Do you think he's the murderer?"
"It's worse than that -- he's an actor!
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Oh... oh... take that... shit...

You are a guy smashes heads... you aren't a smart guy, a...
DEYTH BANGER
EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla?

Audience: Yeah.

EA: Yeah, they d...
EMILIE AUTUMN
I hope one day
somebody loves you
so much
that they see violets
in the bags unde...
TRISTA MATEER
I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
...
MARY OLIVER
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.


Read it ove...
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
To...
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Once, when I was young and true.
Someone left me sad -
Broke my brittle heart in two;
DOROTHY PARKER
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-...
WENDELL BERRY
Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
That fashioned forth its loveli...
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Love entered in my heart one day
A sad, unwelcome guest.
But when it begged that it might ...
J. CALIFORNIA COOPER
it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to m...
SANOBER KHAN
I must confess, that my
heart is like a frozen lake,
only pretends to be firm,
to sh...
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Spend some time to show you care;
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Random thoughts that fly away.
Where words has no place to stay.
Let it be right where t...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA
you deserve for
your heart to be heard-
because love lights a
fire in us all.
it...
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they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
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YOUR GREATER ANIMAL


They say that if you are
Ever confronted by
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Spilling a Secret

What its size,
will have varying
consequences. It’s not ...
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I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of t...
ANONYMOUS
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That thing you thought you'd do
You start to think you can't;
You always say tomorrow,
MARGO T. ROSE
Don’t sell based on inventory. Inventory based on who you want to sell.

A lot of people...
RICHIE NORTON
It has been very clear the Guard










<...
JOSEPH DUNN
it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.

It took
losing him AMANDA LOVELACE
Luck is not as random as you think.

Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone h...
VERA NAZARIAN
MARY OLIVER It is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse-
That we who lived by honest dre...
C. DAY LEWIS
All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any prob...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS
This Stone

He went looking for a road
that doesn't lead to death.
He went looki...
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come b...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
I had an accident."

"That seemes to happen a lot."

"It wasn't my fault."
...
RICHELLE MEAD
You could tell by that third game that our basic skills were beginning to pick up and kick in, ... A...
BOB MURRAY
Yaicha runs.

He sits down, tired,
and says to mom,
"I'm sorry you had to see t...
THALIA CHALTAS
Just looking at them
I grow greedy, as if they were
freshly baked loaves
waiting on t...
LINDA PASTAN
This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pai...
OMAR KHAYYáM
Today is a shameful day in the history of American jurisprudence, ... Today the U.S. Supreme Court h...
BARBARA BECNEL
Red Sox looked around Jane at the patient, “Your mind reading coming back?”

“With h...
J.R. WARD
BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLE


You can
Lose a child
Or a parent,
The lov...
SUZY KASSEM
DESDEMONA
Come, how wouldst thou praise me?

IAGO
I am about it; but indeed my...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?"

"What?"
TAHEREH MAFI
People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.

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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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All other trades are contained in that of war.

Is that why war endures?

No. It...
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
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You have to carry the fire."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire real? Th...
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They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a shi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in p...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scienti...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or b...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
All The Pretty Horses
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
We were considered rich because all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failur...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I thin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gib...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ...
CORMAC BUTLER
Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner.
CORMAC BUTLER
In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ...
CORMAC BUTLER
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
MELISSA MCCARTHY
To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh...
MELISSA MCCARTHY
As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY
I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY
...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY
I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY
The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY
They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY
I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY
I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ...
ERIN MCCARTHY
Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”

“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY
The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY
Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY