"We're roughage," Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there."

Satire, Disruption, Humor, Impact, Awareness

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"We're roughage," Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there."

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"Genuinity is mother of stupidity."

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"Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

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"Does your guilty past catch up so fast with your age? You've been robbing hex nuts, cap nuts, lock nuts and wing nuts. No wonder you have turned into a greedy nut."

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"He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious."

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"Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature."

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"Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with."

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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."

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"Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie."

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"Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus."

Despair

"How many kids are in the Graveyard?""A bunch.""Who sends your supplies?""George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget.""How often do you receive new arrivals?""About as often as you beat your wife."

Satire

"Everything feels right with the world......and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken."

Sensitivity

"The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is."

Potential

"But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell."

Ethics

"It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely."

Psychology

"I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now."

Life

"When he touches a wall the ooze grows thicker, drawn to his and as if he's become a gravity well for the darkness - and it occurs to me that the dark must be in love with the light. Yet one must always kill the other."

Darkness

"I suppose even a simple slogan can be twisted into whatever shape we want, like a balloon animal-we can even make it loop back around on itself, becoming a noose. In the end, the measure of who we are can be seen in the shapes of our balloon animals."

Self

"How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?""They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong."

Law