Shawn

“I have no use for people who exhibit manners.”
― Amy Vanderbilt

“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“A fish pitched up By the angry sea, I gasped on land, And I became me. He”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn’t it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word and made a mountain out of a pea—he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue