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I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimes - baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

(When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.

Bureaucracy, as Hannah Arendt defined it: the rule of nobody. Roll

Devoțiunea îl părăsise. Ce preț mai avea rugăciunea, când el știa că sufletul îi tânjește după propria pierzanie? Un anumit orgoliu, un anumit respect temător îl împiedicau să-i închine lui Dumnezeu fie și o singură rugăciune de seară... Orgoliul lui întru păcat, temătoru-i respect, fără iubire, față de Dumnezeu îi spuneau că ofensa lui era prea jignitoare ca să poată fi răscumpărată în întregime sau în parte printr-un omagiu fals adus Atotvăzătorului si Atotputernicului.

You shall find there a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow.

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? On

But there was nothing in them. They were empty. It was our hands that were supposed to be full, of the future; which could be held but not seen.   I

The funny part is, I felt like marrying her the minute I saw her. I'm crazy. I didn't even like her much, and yet all of a sudden I felt like I was in love with her and wanted to marry her. I swear to God I'm crazy. I admit it.

inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild,

Humbert the Terrible deliberated with Humbert the Small whether Humbert Humbert should kill her or her lover, or both, or neither.

Oh!" said Lydia stoutly, "I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I'm the tallest." The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing

...I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere.

-Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que ha perdido ya antes de empezar, empieza a pesar de todo y sigue hasta el final pase lo que pase.

Superman?’ Clevinger cried. ‘Superman?’ ‘Supraman,’ Yossarian corrected.

Departe, de-a lungul cursului leneșului Liffey, catarge zvelte tărcau cerul și, mai departe încă, urzeala tulbure a orașului zăcea prosternată în pâclă.

How do you generalize? War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. The truths are contradictory.

There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from.

(...) cause after a request like that there's always a next time, wether you say yes or no.

Be brave! Let’s remember our duty and perform it without complaint. There will be a way out. God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they’ve gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger. The weak shall fall and the strong shall survive and not be defeated!

В крышке от унитаза и то больше чуткости, чем в этом самом Эрнесте.