Stealing Words

I will deposit words and exchanges that I have stolen from the world of books, movies, television and a bit from the world of news and politics.

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I account you unfortunate in that you have been unfortunate. You pass through life without an adversary​. No one can know your potentially, not even you.

Seneca

[stealingwords]

Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.

TSabonis

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You make it sound like there's a correlation between what should happen and what actually happens.

House of Cards

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You people, Bosch thought. It was always said like that, as if the police were another species. The blue species which carried armor that the horrors of the world could not pierce.

City of Bones by Michael Connelly

[stealingwords]

Lies are necessary when the truth is too difficult to believe.

Pablo Escobar - Narcos

[stealingwords]

You have to carry the fire. I don't know how to. Yes, you do. Is the fire real? The fire? Yes it is. Where is it? I don't know where it is. Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it

The Man and His Son - Cormac McCarthy’s the Road

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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

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The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

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The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to. What do they sacrifice? 'Their time, mostly, Sometimes each other

Lucy and Shadow - Neil Gaiman’s American Gods

[stealingwords]

She read my books the way a young cannibal might eat the hearts of brave old enemies. Their magic would become hers

Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut

[stealingwords]

... a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

[stealingwords]

Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.

Omerta by Mario Puzo

[stealingwords]

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

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The truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

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A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque

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I feel excited; but I do not want to be, for that is not right. I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque

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The shelling is stronger than everything. It wipes out the sensibilities, I merely crawl still farther under the coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque