William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."
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John Green
Author, YouTuber
"I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart."
John Green
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"At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved."
John Green
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"It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?"
Robert Frost
Poet
"Good fences make good neighbors."
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"I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent."
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"What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person."
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"Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young"
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"She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better!"
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"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die."
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"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken."
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"It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things."
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"It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you."
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"We all use the future to escape the present."
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"Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about."
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"The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't."
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"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!"
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"IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding."
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"At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze."
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"Every lover is a soldier."
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"You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew."
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"I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth."
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"I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what."
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"I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice."
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"When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did."
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