Top 200 A.D. Aliwat Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Before me all things crumble.”

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152. “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

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

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

— A.D. Aliwat

155. “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.”

— A.D. Aliwat

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

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

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158. “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.”

— A.D. Aliwat

159. “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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160. “New York is sweltering in the summertime.”

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161. “The truth you know has all been a lie.”

— A.D. Aliwat

162. “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.”

— A.D. Aliwat

163. “Take the moment, it’s yours.”

— A.D. Aliwat

164. “The one thing that will help in almost any New York City situation is to simply appear crazier than anyone else around.”

— A.D. Aliwat

165. “Girls know the value of a good secret.”

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166. “It wouldn’t be so bad, to actually be living; it would be pretty nice.”

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167. “She seemed to speak to herself more than him. But this is the strength of any good mystic.”

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

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170. “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?”

— A.D. Aliwat

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

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172. “Letters form words, lines lengthen, paragraphs grow.”

— A.D. Aliwat

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

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174. “Feet in general are weird.”

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175. “Clarity trumps context.”

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

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

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178. “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

179. “What the hell has he been wasting his time doing? Indulging his insanity, that’s what.”

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180. “Technology cannot be trusted!”

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

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

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183. “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.”

— A.D. Aliwat

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

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185. “There really is nothing like firsthand knowledge if it’s mine.”

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186. “I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.”

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

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188. “There can be great joy before the night.”

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

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190. “If it hasn’t come by now, it won’t.”

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

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

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

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194. “Only a fool would deny me.”

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195. “To most people down there, they seem like everything. Clouds. They seem mystical and very important. As if they carry out God’s will.”

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

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197. “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.”

— A.D. Aliwat

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

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199. “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.”

— A.D. Aliwat

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

— A.D. Aliwat