Crime Fiction Satire Jukebox Quotes

#1. Martyrdom is a lonely business.
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Saira Viola

#2. Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

Cyril Connolly

#3. Everyday she loses a bit more of herself , every day another nail in her coffin house payments medical bills and middle aged isolation

Saira Viola

#4. His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity whensoever possible with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters.

Herman Melville

#5. We pay people and reward them for greed and sleaze . When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure pay cheque and a tacky lingerie line ... selling filth so you can get your face on Time magazine ... From Jukebox

Saira Viola

#6. Awareness means Presence, and only Presence can dissolve the unconscious past in you.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. Sharing is sometimes
more demanding than giving.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#8. Reality Tv had become the preferred drug of choice for the George Clooney obsessed housewives strung out on empty promises and splintered dreams

Saira Viola

#9. She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out

Saira Viola

#10. Are you coming?" Matthew took his hand. "Not yet, but I hope we're headed that way." Silas rolled his eyes. "That's a terrible joke." "I know. You'll have to punish me for it.

Elia Winters

#11. Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it ...

Charles Dickens