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Quotes from the books I read, the movies I see, and the people I meet Currently reading: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

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Isn't all great art kind of a mirror?

Homer Simpson

The Simpsons, Season 26 Episode 6

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Because we're more willing to gamble when it comes to losses, but are risk averse when it comes to our gains.

Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009) Blowing Up, page 67

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The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

Emperor

Mulan (1998)

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The sooner you accept the dull, miserable nature of your existence, the happier you'll be.

Chet

Turbo (2013)

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Happy dreams only make me less happy after I wake up. I should have never had happy dreams in the first place.

Do Min Joon

You Who Came from the Stars, Episode 12

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That was the problem with a world in which there was so much uncertainty about why things ended up the way they did: you never knew whether one day your luck would turn and it would all be washed away.

Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009) Blowing Up, page 55

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An understanding of history is part of the process of exercising control over our own lives, whether as individuals, groups or societies.

Hazel Conway, Design History: A Student's Handbook (1987) Design History Basics, page 6

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

Joan Didion, On Keeping A Notebook

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I act scary, Mike. But most of the time, I'm terrified.

James P. Sullivan

Monster's University (2013)

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...the hardest thing to do is to admit you're wrong.

Philip Kramer

White Collar, Season 3 Episode 10

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The best things in life aren't things at all; they're experiences...like this.

"Him"

James Healey, Worth It

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And it's better to be hurt by one you love than never know love at all

Evanna

Darren Shan, The Saga of Larten Crepsley: The Palace of the Damned (2011) Chapter 19, pages 199-200

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You're moving to Chicago? Is that even a real place? It's a style of pizza. Ted, you can't live in a pizza.

Barney Stinson

How I Met Your Mother, Season 9 Episode 12

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Don't ask me why, old sport, but somebody up there likes you.

Stony Stevenson

Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (1959) Epilogue, page 326

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I don't know anybody in Indianapolis, and I don't know anything about Indianapolis except for one thing, a thing I read in a book. Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.

Malachi Constant

Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (1959) Epilogue, page 321

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It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Malachi Constant

Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan Epilogue, page 320

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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody.

Beatrice Rumfoord

Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (1959) Epilogue, page 317