Top 200 A.D. Aliwat Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Some habits just translate well to other undertakings. Some things are just in one’s nature.”

— A.D. Aliwat

102. “Around one hundred thousand people died in Hiroshima. Why did we think so little of their freedom? What have we done for the hibakusha since?”

— A.D. Aliwat

103. “What is a man but something between a demon and an angel?”

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104. “It was a boring book because it said nothing new and did so in a way that was needlessly academic and gimmicky. He would have been better off writing a book called Infinite Rest that was just the letter ‘z’ ad nauseam for eleven hundred pages.”

— A.D. Aliwat

105. “People deserve the benefit of the doubt, but information? Always hold it up to a cold white light. Misinformation is a tool of the Devil.”

— A.D. Aliwat

106. “Any man who thinks he has it all figured out is a fool and cannot be trusted.”

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107. “Being critical isn’t the same as being disrespectful.”

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108. “The human heart is a damnable thing.”

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109. “An irrational fear is just as scary if not scarier than one that’s justified. FDR said, ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,’ yet he was actually deathly afraid of the number thirteen.”

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110. “Growing up, us Eighties Babies were all told we were the best, that we could be anything we wanted to be; it was normal to spoil kids and fill them with lofty expectations. The only difference between me and everybody else was that I really was the best and really could be anything I wanted to be.”

— A.D. Aliwat

111. “Nine? There is no authority to that number! It must be ten!”

— A.D. Aliwat

112. “Times Square – loud and bright twenty-four hours a day, bearing a more stunning light than the Statue of Liberty ever could, a Disneyfied Lucifer leading New York’s damned to a fire ever-building, ever-burning.”

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113. “The angel is nothing without the demon. Opposite sides of the same coin. The coins they lay on the eyes and mouths of the dead.”

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114. “Every man loves it when a woman tells him ‘no.’ This is because hearing ‘no’ releases stress hormones and men enjoy being stressed out. It makes them feel more important when they’re stressed, like they matter more. Deep down all men know they are terrible and disgusting and for the most part worthless. They hate themselves, and so they like to be told ’no.”

— A.D. Aliwat

115. “Sleep deprivation, it seems, can giveth as much as it taketh away!”

— A.D. Aliwat

116. “The poor Indians that sold the isle of Manhattan for twenty-four bucks are the only real native New Yorkers.”

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117. “Daughters don’t want their daddies to be foxes, they want them to be lions. No Poseidons. Only Zeuses.”

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118. “You can’t spell American without “I can.”

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119. “Waiters can be so rude.”

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120. “I hate pretty much everyone almost as much as I love myself.”

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121. “Mescaline is good. Mescaline is progress.”

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122. “I am what I am. And only that. At all times.”

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123. “People treat breaks differently: some as opportunities for growth; others as a time for fun; and yet more, including Ray, it seems, treat it as an excuse to shut down their minds completely.”

— A.D. Aliwat

124. “Their loving was about creating an experience, and it seems that they were both almost compulsively drawn to it.”

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125. “At least at parties everybody knows somebody, there’s a semblance of vetting and community, friendship.”

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126. “Really, who doesn’t like Mexican, though?”

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127. “What sounds so terrible from a dog or small child is just wonderful coming from a grown man.”

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128. “It’s sort of pathetic to just play other people’s songs all the time, even if you don’t feel like you have the chops to write good music.”

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129. “They only feed off of self-righteous rhetorical argument, trolls – even plain old reason doesn’t stand a chance.”

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130. “Only a fool would deny me.”

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131. “When he’s staring into a screen, he’s staring into the abyss. That void of his own making. Of course the abyss would stare back at you.”

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132. “Clarity trumps context.”

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133. “The devout read their religious texts daily.”

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134. “Men are stupid, and a lot of them need to be told things on top of being shown.”

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135. “From below, clouds lie. And if you understand them, if you understand the lies, then you can harness their power.”

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136. “If I seem better than you, you like me more. If you feel you have no chance with me, you like me more.”

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137. “Doing reality TV would have made me more famous than rich, and that would have been awful.”

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138. “Truth – something between fact and faith – leads to God. ‘Love isn’t about rules. It’s a feeling. You know when it’s there and when it’s not, and it can be brought on by different things for different people. That, that’s truth. One’s truth leads to God. Some people see it in kindness, others in tough love, like you’re showing me. Someone’s truth is in what they love.’”

— A.D. Aliwat

139. “Texts should be blue, not green.”

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140. “Take the moment, it’s yours.”

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141. “Everybody that breaks up has a little tally of their victories which they count after the relationship to see how they did; cheating gives you a million tallies and more or less makes the entire relationship a lie.”

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142. “There’s a reason why the Super Bowl is watched way more than the NBA Finals and World Series.”

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143. “Higher education is kind of a racket.”

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144. “Love and be loved in return, but don’t make your love conditional on being loved back.”

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145. “Feet in general are weird.”

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146. “A bigot is a bigot by any name, whether sociology likes it or not.”

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147. “Since humans are social animals, you’re basically only as good as your reputation.”

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148. “Writing about Kafka in this day and age is just so easy: the world is more bizarre, senseless, surreal than ever – it would mean the student isn’t really exerting themselves; today, Kafka is just too relatable.”

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149. “Part of patience is knowing your truth and staying loyal to it; you just can’t allow your face to betray what an attack on it actually makes you feel.”

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150. “There’s a problem with treating others as you’d like to be treated when you don’t treat yourself all that well.”

— A.D. Aliwat