"New York is a sucked orange."

Satire, City, Metaphor

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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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"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."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss 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."

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese Author

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

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Satire, Humor, Truth, Life, Happiness

"I had never before been a special fan of that great comedian Phyllis Diller, but she utterly won my heart this week by sending me an envelope that, when opened, contained a torn-off square of brown-bag paper of the kind suitable for latrine duty in an ill-run correctional facility. Duly unfurled, it carried a handwritten salutation reading as follows:Money's scarceTimes are hardHere's your f******I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?"

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Satire, Humor, Reality, Morality

"Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds."

Rebecca McNutt, Canadian Author

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"All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns."

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

Nature

"The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."

Art

"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."

Inspirational

"Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories."

Knowledge

"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."

Unity

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

Inspirational

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased."

Inspirational

"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."

Life

"You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel."

Judgment

"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character."

Individuality