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• Everything was fine, but Weetzie wanted a baby. “How could you want one?” My Secret Agent Lover Man said. “There are way too many babies. And diseases. And nuclear accidents. And crazy psychos. We cant have a baby,” he said.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Baby, Crazy, Men

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Dangerous Angels: Five Weetzie Bat Books”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.

  Mark Haddon

  Zoos, Believe, Animal

  "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". Book by Mark Haddon, 2003.

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• The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Men, Insanity

  "Twelve Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, War, Cutting

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• At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Light, Oxygen

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• Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Sadness

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.

  David McCullough

  Country, Fighting, Years

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.643, Simon and Schuster

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• We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.

  Sarah Waters

  Names, Indulge Yourself, Literature

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.447, Penguin

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• I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Taken, Fate, Knowing

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Spring, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Stress, Normal, Individual

  Herbert Marcuse (1968). “Negations; essays in critical theory”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.

  Wendell Berry

  Somewhere Else, People, Community

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• Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass. When winter came the bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself 'I hope that busy little bee will share some of his honey with me.' But the bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease.

  Banksy

  Summer, Morning, Stress

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• To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Literature, Phantoms

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.123, HMH

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• Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.

  Philip Yancey

  War, Fall, Heart

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• For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Reading, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.46, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

  Jane Yolen

  Childhood, Literature

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• And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

  David Sedaris

  Pests, Grows, Carrier

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• What would Kathy say if she knew I let the whole crew eat those Oreos when they never did eat their carrot sticks (which I had so firmly required as prerequisite)? All three of my kids were probably heading for disease (not enough veggies) and jail (not enough discipline).

  Dean Hughes

  Kids, Jail, Discipline

  Dean Hughes (2005). “All Moms Go to Heaven: Reflections”, Deseret Book Company

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• I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

  S. E. Hinton

  Thinking, Talking, Breathing

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.50, Penguin

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• Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

  Orson Welles

  Age, Want, Old Age

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• Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

  Juvenal

  Writing, Sick, Mind

  "Hissy fit now" by Laura Denham, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2000.

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• There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Nice, Book

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.19, Random House

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• We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

  Alain de Botton

  Intelligent, Insanity, Awareness

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.125, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  War, Hair, Soldier

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