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excerpts from my grimoire

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Never eat a orange like a apple

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“Although it is very subtle, I have looked at the world as an orchard to be picked by me and for me and my family.” Keith Miller, Habitation of Dragons

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Privacy is a wonderful thing. Like love, privacy is most manifest in its absence.
—Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking Fiends

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“You had sex with me while I was unconscious,” Jody said.
“That’s not the same,” Tommy said. “I was just being friendly, like when you put a quarter in someone else’s parking meter when they aren’t there—you know they appreciate it later, even if they don’t thank you personally.”

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Someday…it’ll be mandatory that we all sell the McDonald’s hamburger as well as buy it; we’ll sell it back and forth to each other forever from our living rooms. That way we won’t even have to go outside—PKD, Scanner Darkly

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They don’t teach the chicks jack shit in school anymore…Flat-out illiterate. But foxy. So she can’t hardly read or write; so what? What matters with a fox is nice tits. PKD, a scanner darkly

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“Bah Jesus, I live for my wife, my children, and my dog.” Grandfather Baxter in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

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“Not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.”—Maya Angelou, i know why the caged bird sings

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Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes—J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

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“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.” — Bokonon

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Sometimes I think that’s the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone cold dead—Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat’s Cradle”

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I am always moved by that seldom-used treasure, the sweetness with which most girls can sing—Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat’s Cradle”

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Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it’ll be her wings and not her face that’ll make my mouth fall open. I’ve already seen the prettiest face that ever could be. — Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat’s Cradle”

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I never knew a writer’s wife who wasn’t beautiful - Kurt Vonnegut, “Welcome to the Monkey House”

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More like homesteading should never have been an issue, folks. Homesteading was deeply tied to violence against Indigenous peoples—including land theft, forced displacement, cultural erasure, and, in many documented cases, murder and sexual violence. The Homestead Act of 1862 gave white settlers—mostly European immigrants—the right to claim “unoccupied” land (typically 160 acres.) But the land being offered wasn’t unoccupied: it was already home to Indigenous nations who had lived there for generations. It’s 2025. When will humans stop acting like animals? 😭

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@Thinkwert

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“God’s truth, the family honor will be spared, the honor of appearances.”—David Diop, At Night All Blood Is Black

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@Ames2420 Gravitron

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Whatever is going to happen has already started happening

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The things one sees in the mind’s eye are as real as the things one sees out a window—Bruce Larson, The One and Only You

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We learn from what has happened to us, and we also learn from the things we have done to other people—Bruce Larson, The One and Only You