"I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse."

Defiance, Death, Violence, Expression

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"I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse."

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"Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you."

Gena Showalter, American Novelist

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"We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we've been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!"

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"There's a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt."

Gena Showalter, American Novelist

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"She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

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"Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will become a monk."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"She was a rule breaker, never settling her fierce spirit for things built of structure."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Defiance, Hell, Rebellion, Denial, Faith

"In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"I will not be my father's dog."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to."

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"And her delicacy offended. Who wants a delicate whore! Claude would even ask you to turn your face away when she squatted over the bidet. All wrong! A man, when he's burning up with passion, wants to see things; he wants to see everything, even how they make water."

Society

"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."

Society

"Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am."

Self

"I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf."

Humor

"Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action."

Action

"Tomorrow is no hazardous affair, a day like any other day: tomorrow is the result of many yesterdays and comes with a potent, cumulative effect. I am tomorrow what I chose to be yesterday and the day before. It is not possible that tomorrow I may negate and nullify everything that led me to this present moment."

Time

"It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things."

Perspective

"There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy."

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"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."

Criticism

"New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless."

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