Top 200 A.D. Aliwat Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The truth you know has all been a lie.”

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152. “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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153. “Letters form words, lines lengthen, paragraphs grow.”

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

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155. “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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156. “It’s just fun to make men fall in love with you.”

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157. “B students don’t deserve mixers.”

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158. “The proof is always on paper.”

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159. “Imperfect; flawed, but trying.”

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160. “He cannot trust himself. If he is an island, he is a volcanic one. Alone in a troubled sea.”

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161. “While it’s true the city’s gotten a lot safer, you still gotta watch out for the wackadoos. You always will.”

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162. “Investment banking is my true calling, so I’m comfortable making sacrifices. I’ve basically given my life to it these past few years. It’s sort of like joining the Army, except instead of going off and losing a leg in some faraway desert to make some defense contractor or oil guy rich, I get to sell things like collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps to idiots and make myself rich.”

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163. “Just gotta do you. Always. If you can’t handle the power, you can’t handle the power.”

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164. “Fraternities aren’t cool at all, not in the real, rock-and-roll sense, the one I now knew. They have a reputation of housing douchebags that pay for friends and try to seem better than everyone else, and actually smart, cool people shouldn’t want to be a part of anything like that.”

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165. “In Buddhism, we don’t believe in the soul. Only karma, deeds. The soul is more of a Western thing. The individual.”

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166. “Faith is a puzzle meant to take someone’s entire life to complete.”

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167. “You can make something less offensive by taking it over.”

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168. “When done right, a sandwich can absolutely lead to transcendence.”

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169. “Words are kinda dumb when you can use pictures.”

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170. “Shaving is always cathartic, much like showering, changing out of clothes, anything where what once was carried during a moment or period of distress is purged.”

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171. “Writing well with children in the house is damn near impossible.”

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172. “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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173. “Nobody will write anything of real value from here on out. Journalism – among the most basic forms of storytelling, the mere relaying of information – doesn’t even stand a chance, has been reduced to those so-called ‘listicles’ or has reverted to sensationalism. Even The Times is riddled with silly teenage-speak and acronyms now, so forget actual literature.”

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174. “A tear. But only one.”

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175. “There’s a certain quiet dignity to it, the chivalrous gesture by the dumpee.”

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

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

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

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179. “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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180. “Only a fool would deny me.”

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181. “Clarity trumps context.”

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

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

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

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185. “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.’”

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

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187. “Take the moment, it’s yours.”

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

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

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191. “Feet in general are weird.”

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

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193. “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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194. “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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195. “There can be great joy before the night.”

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196. “This isn’t real. It would be too much.”

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197. “Evil travels – like all energy, it transfers between people and objects; it moves, gets stored, moves again. But where did it originate? When Eve ate the apple? Or before that, with Satan, that fallen seraph who took the form of a snake and whispered with slithering tongue into her ear? Did she birth it or was it thrust upon us by some insufflating malefic serpent? Is it man-made or a supernatural force?”

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198. “Some models are actually very weird-looking.”

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199. “The relationship between madness and genius has been commented on since Aristotle.”

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

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