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All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.
Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk
Spinners take out the bad stuff, leave in the good. I’ve always thought how nice it would be to have spinners like this for human beings. Just toss them in and let the spinner do its work.
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.
Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal….as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis