Adam Levin Quotes

#1. Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

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#2. You fucked up,' he said. 'Know that you're someone who fucked up. But know that doesn't make you a fuckup. The difference is a matter of repetition

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#3. Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.

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#4. Since bad timing could mean almost anything, it was a certain kind of truth. A low kind.

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#5. Were there always to be more damage, damage would be an aspect of perfection. We would all be angels, one-legged and faceless, seething with endless, hopeless praise. Bless Adonai for making us better than angels. Blessed is Adonai for making us human.

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#6. T is good to do justice because God will kill you and your family whether you do justice or not.

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#7. Go ahead and flunk me for begging the question, then go ahead and fuck yourself for asking it.

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#8. All the word's indeed a page and we must loudly tear it.

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#9. The further south the throng went, the more reasons it discovered. Vendettas once sworn for half-forgotten offenses were remembered and invented with each passing blow. Everyone felt like a conduit of justice.

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#10. The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.

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#11. And your parents, believe me - I don't care what kind of relationship you've got with them - they'll take you up on that offer. You share that sandwich with them - are you hearing me? - you share that glory sandwich with them and they'll love you forever.

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#12. He described the experience as being 'a little bit less fun, perhaps, than chain-smoking for ninety minutes while handcuffed to a dowager with asthma who used to teach Health and smells incontinent.

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#13. Let us be as the Cage has never been able to make us. Let us now all at once face forward in our boxes, still and silent as nightmares.
We did.

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#14. Easy as a child breathes a wish at a dandelion ... is exactly how hard it would be for me to tear your limbs from their sockets.

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#15. It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

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#16. I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't ...

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#17. Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.

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#18. We can't just have everything without complications, you and I. There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths.

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#19. The fly was on my desk, his hose in the candy dust. I cupped my hand and covered him, then brushed him past the edge to see where he'd go. He returned to the dust, as if I hadn't just demonstrated that I could kill him, as if I hadn't just shown him right there in the dust.

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#20. Nonetheless, he is a boy. Despite his talents, a boy. And a boy is more idealistic than a man, and high ideals in the hands of children can be as dangerous as weapons. He thought he was in the right, and because he thought he was in the right, he thought there would be an exception. That's that.

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#21. Books are truer than movies.

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#22. If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.

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#23. Reasonable of you, John. Reasonable of you, Dick. No two Israelites had ever pattered so goyischely.

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#24. You only taste your own dignity right before you puke it up.

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#25. Underdog stories are easy to tell. It is best to be suspicious of underdog stories.

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#26. The goodness of our intentions was in direct correlation to the heights from which we condescended to each other.

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#27. Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

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#28. I feel like a millionaire on the back of an armored jet-ski my samurai girlfriend who loves me is charging at a cartel speedboat to win a game of chicken. Isn't this the day's best part? You don't even have to remember to enjoy it. It enjoys you into itself.

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