"Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin."
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Craig Stone quotes (page 2 of 3)
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"When we’re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young."
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"Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting under a tree: a slight, but important difference in how I’ll be perceived."
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"Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do."
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"We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did."
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"Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath."
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"Smile sometimes: it won’t add years to your life, but it will add life to your years."
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"I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are."
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"A person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind."
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"The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what."
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"People that talk about living in the real world don't even enjoy living in the real world."
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"There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the problems sound like they’re taking place in a different world: they make people not care about other people dying of starvation by calling the place the dying live “the third world."
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"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish."
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"When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can push (which either screws or nails something) they become Gods in their own heads.They can do anything: they can eat through walls and bring buildings together to form mighty empires.They can build floating cities and flying tin cans.But they still can't make their own beds."
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"If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing."
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"When someone falls asleep on your chest, but the one really falling is you."
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"Sometimes you need to sit in the wrong place to see the right view."
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"Love is a grin, a look in the eye whispering what are we doing, appearing in silly arguments had for the sake of them."
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"I wonder if I'm being paranoid. I tell myself I'm not, and then ask myself how I can be so sure? I don't know the answer, so I go back to wondering if I am."
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"There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man."
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