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“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.”
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“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.”
― Là-Bas
― Là-Bas
“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“There'd always been something wrong with Charlie Hall. Crooked, from the day she was born. Never met a bad decision she wasn't willing to double down on. Had fingers made for picking pockets, a tongue for lying, and a shriveled cherry pit for a heart. If her shadow had been one of those magic ones, she was pretty sure even that thing would have run away.”
― Book of Night
― Book of Night
“If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.”
― Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
― Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
“Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.”
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“Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one.”
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“Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the left.
There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many people have this nervous trick of a crooked smile, and in many it is even attractive. But in all Syme's circumstances, with the dark dawn and the deadly errand and the loneliness on the great dripping stones, there was something unnerving in it. There was the silent river and the silent man, a man of even classic face. And there was the last nightmare touch that his smile suddenly went wrong.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many people have this nervous trick of a crooked smile, and in many it is even attractive. But in all Syme's circumstances, with the dark dawn and the deadly errand and the loneliness on the great dripping stones, there was something unnerving in it. There was the silent river and the silent man, a man of even classic face. And there was the last nightmare touch that his smile suddenly went wrong.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”
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“The punter sweated on top of Marina, his lips all over her young body, his tongue slipping out from rows of crooked teeth, pushing hungrily from between his shrivelled lips like a clam from a shell, a bottom feeder searching for salty nutrition.”
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“Out of ten listener, only one can recite accurately what he/she heard exactly from the speaker, others will tell you less, more, crooked and lies.”
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“The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!”
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“When I see President Obama and President Trump criticizing each other, I see two crooked actors spewing nonsense.”
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“Modern corporate controlled governments have devolved into corrupt politicians running crooked courts that are being fed by thugs wearing police uniforms.”
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“Look at me crooked. Mistake me for Eve. If looks
deceive, who knows which mask our maker wears tonight?”
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deceive, who knows which mask our maker wears tonight?”
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“It is important that the masses realize that some aspects of science are blatantly crooked.”
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“Down the run, the rivers have many obstacles,
Some created rift valleys and some got crooked..”
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Some created rift valleys and some got crooked..”
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“It really does not matter what you say to a crooked government judge, as they will twist everything you say and use it against you.”
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“I am thankful for the crooked Disability and Workers Compensation systems, as they gave a valuable education in government corruption.”
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