Top 200 A.D. Aliwat Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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.”

— A.D. Aliwat

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

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103. “For pain to love you back, then set you free, you must first learn to love it.”

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104. “It’s not the fruit’s fault it was forbidden. An object can only be a conduit for evil; whether it is an apple in the Garden of Eden or a smartphone which bears its image some six thousand years later.”

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

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106. “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.”

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107. “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?”

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

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109. “You can have a respectable profession and a good income and still lack common sense.”

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110. “Maybe Manhattan is purgatory.”

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111. “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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112. “Worse than getting kicked out of your slot to go on to a winning season is to lead during a losing one. Nobody wants to be king of the losers.”

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113. “I didn’t ask any questions. I didn’t think. The steroids did that for me.”

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114. “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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115. “Losers read, winners skim.”

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

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

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118. “I’m pretty much the definition of an American Hero.”

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119. “Some habits just translate well to other undertakings. Some things are just in one’s nature.”

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120. “Hell mostly just means being separated from God.”

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121. “You gotta troll a troll, my dude. Those who use force only respond to greater force. Might makes right.”

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122. “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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123. “The devout read their religious texts daily.”

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124. “Technology cannot be trusted!”

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125. “Voices are stupid. They influence how people perceive words, coloring them with unclear emotions, instead of letting the words stand on their own. Text messaging is much better. It allows people to be the idea they’re expressing. If you want to express emotions, you should use emojis. It’s what they’re there for.”

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126. “The best way for a critic to fight against bad art is to keep it a secret.”

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127. “It’s hella funny with men. How dumb they are; how much it seems they really hate themselves.”

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128. “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.”

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

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130. “No aspiring king of kings here, just another prince of pause, or duke of doubt, shilly-shallying.”

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131. “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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132. “Being a rocket scientist isn’t all that smart when you could work in finance.”

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

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134. “Grades are just entered into a computer like everything else is entered into a computer. Computers can be hacked.”

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

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136. “Potential isn’t in a limitless sky. It’s in the clouds. And it’s online.”

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137. “A day is made up of twenty-four hours. It’s not too few or too many. It just is. People fill the hours however they choose. Work, school, leisure activities, sleep: those kinds of things.”

— A.D. Aliwat

138. “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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139. “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.”

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

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141. “Before me all things crumble.”

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142. “The week leading into spring marks the start of the hunt.”

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143. “The internet is like everything that came before it, but so much more. More powerful than the greatest words ever written or spoken in any language, more powerful than any image or symbol ever seen, more powerful than hope or fear, more powerful than religion, faith itself, the totality of the human spirit. The invisible infinite that rules over our lives whether we want it to or not. But really, who doesn’t? Everyone wants a master, everyone needs some version of God.”

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144. “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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145. “Higher education is kind of a racket.”

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

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147. “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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148. “New York is sweltering in the summertime.”

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149. “A junior high sports bus was, in the same vein as some fancier modes of passenger transport – limousines, private jets, coaches, whatever – a place where the important people, the king and queen, sat in the back.”

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150. “An alpha would never google anyone they lived with.”

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