...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.'

What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'

Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.

John Kennedy Toole

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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?

J.K. Rowling

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It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?

Terry Pratchett

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Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

Joss Whedon

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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

Colleen Hoover

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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Samuel Johnson

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I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Peter Ustinov

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