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All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.
Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk

05:45 am, by eagerfeet-1,358 notes

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

04:21 pm, by eagerfeet-112 notes

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

02:05 pm, by eagerfeet-355 notes

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

09:52 am, by eagerfeet-150 notes

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

07:22 pm, by eagerfeet-67 notes

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

10:48 am, by eagerfeet-20 notes