<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" >
  <channel>
    <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" />
    <title></title>
    <copyright><![CDATA[Copyright (C) 2026 Goodreads LLC. All rights reserved.]]>
    </copyright>
    <link>https://www.goodreads.com/</link>
    <atom:link href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/list_rss/136892781-anon-reader" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
    <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
    <language>en-US</language>
    <lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:24:21 -0800</lastBuildDate>
    <ttl>60</ttl>
    <image>
      <title></title>
      <link>https://www.goodreads.com/</link>
      <width>144</width>
      <height>41</height>
      <url>https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg</url>
    </image>
    	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/258-in-three-words-i-can-sum-up-everything-i-ve-learned</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:24:21 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Robert Frost]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/258-in-three-words-i-can-sum-up-everything-i-ve-learned]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9356060-aways-remember-you-re-going-to-die-soon-enough-anyway-even</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:47:13 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Jesse Bering]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9356060-aways-remember-you-re-going-to-die-soon-enough-anyway-even]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Aways remember: You’re going to die soon enough anyway; even if it’s a hundred years from now, that’s still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the meantime, live like a scientist—even a controversial one with only an ally or two in all the world—and treat life as a grand experiment, blood, sweat, tears and all. Bear in mind that there's no such thing as a failed experiment—only data." -- Jesse Bering]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/749772-we-cannot-change-what-we-are-not-aware-of-and</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:20:27 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Sheryl Sandberg]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/749772-we-cannot-change-what-we-are-not-aware-of-and]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change." -- Sheryl Sandberg]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/66586-scratch-any-cynic-and-you-will-find-a-disappointed-idealist</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2022 12:18:13 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by George Carlin]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/66586-scratch-any-cynic-and-you-will-find-a-disappointed-idealist]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist." -- George Carlin]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7272745-until-you-realize-how-easy-it-is-for-your-mind</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:33:50 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Evita Ochel]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7272745-until-you-realize-how-easy-it-is-for-your-mind]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game." -- Evita Ochel]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/675157-our-lives-are-so-brief-and-unimportant-the-cosmos-cares</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:28:52 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Assassins creed]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/675157-our-lives-are-so-brief-and-unimportant-the-cosmos-cares]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Our lives are so brief and unimportant. The cosmos cares nothing for us. For what we've done; Had we wrought evil instead of good. Had I chosen to abuse the Apple instead of seal it away. None of it would have mattered. There is no counting. No reckoning. No final judgement. There is simply silence. And darkness. Utter and absolute...

-Altair" -- Assassins creed]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/62450-our-species-is-the-only-creative-species-and-it-has</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:25:23 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by John Steinbeck]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/62450-our-species-is-the-only-creative-species-and-it-has]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man." -- John Steinbeck]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/354459-the-only-ethical-principle-which-has-made-science-possible-is</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:41:45 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Dorothy L. Sayers]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/354459-the-only-ethical-principle-which-has-made-science-possible-is]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time.  If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention.  And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit." -- Dorothy L. Sayers]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1026311-sex-is-power</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:14:59 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Camille Paglia]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1026311-sex-is-power]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Sex is power." -- Camille Paglia]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/549815-because-here-s-something-else-that-s-weird-but-true-in-the</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2022 06:43:37 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by David Foster Wallace]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/549815-because-here-s-something-else-that-s-weird-but-true-in-the]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship--be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles--is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.

Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful, it's that they're unconscious. They are default settings.

They're the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that's what you're doing." -- David Foster Wallace]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1218083-lightly-caressingly-marie-antoinette-picked-up-the-crown-as-a</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2021 13:40:56 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Stefan Zweig]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1218083-lightly-caressingly-marie-antoinette-picked-up-the-crown-as-a]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows. She did not think she would have to pay a price. She simply accepted the rights of her royal position and performed no duties in exchange. She wanted to combine two things which are, in actual human experience, incompatible; she wanted to reign and at the same time to enjoy." -- Stefan Zweig]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11261802-to-say-that-straight-men-are-heterosexual-is-only-to</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2022 08:20:55 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Marilyn Frye]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11261802-to-say-that-straight-men-are-heterosexual-is-only-to]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving." -- Marilyn Frye]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/57583-being-powerful-is-like-being-a-lady-if-you-have</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2022 08:08:50 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Margaret Thatcher]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/57583-being-powerful-is-like-being-a-lady-if-you-have]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." -- Margaret Thatcher]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18463-whoever-fights-monsters-should-see-to-it-that-in-the</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2022 17:54:22 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18463-whoever-fights-monsters-should-see-to-it-that-in-the]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/494125-we-love-our-superheroes-because-they-refuse-to-give-up</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 18:38:43 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Grant Morrison]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/494125-we-love-our-superheroes-because-they-refuse-to-give-up]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be." -- Grant Morrison]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/203430-the-conscious-and-intelligent-manipulation-of-the-organized-habits-and</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 09:09:54 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Edward Bernays]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/203430-the-conscious-and-intelligent-manipulation-of-the-organized-habits-and]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind." -- Edward Bernays]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7480241-if-people-can-t-control-their-own-emotions-then-they-have</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:21:56 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Robin Skynner]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7480241-if-people-can-t-control-their-own-emotions-then-they-have]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior." -- Robin Skynner]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/778-it-is-not-a-lack-of-love-but-a-lack</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:27:54 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/778-it-is-not-a-lack-of-love-but-a-lack]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." -- Friedrich Nietzsche]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/352821-a-man-once-asked-me-how-i-managed-in</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:37:18 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Dorothy L. Sayers]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/352821-a-man-once-asked-me-how-i-managed-in]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves.  Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends?  I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five.  &quot;Well,&quot; said the man, &quot;I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing.&quot;  I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings.   This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over.  One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also." -- Dorothy L. Sayers]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10305340-i-mean-she-looked-good-really-good-i-probably-would-ve</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2021 14:34:14 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Rick Riordan]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10305340-i-mean-she-looked-good-really-good-i-probably-would-ve]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["I mean, she looked good. Really good. I probably would've been tongue-tied if I could've said anything except reet, reet, reet." -- Rick Riordan]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10743695-the-darkling-s-gray-eyes-studied-mal-with-more-interest-than</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2022 19:12:33 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Leigh Bardugo]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10743695-the-darkling-s-gray-eyes-studied-mal-with-more-interest-than]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["The Darkling's gray eyes studied Mal with more interest than he'd ever shown before.
&quot;I understand we're blood related.&quot;
Mal shrugged. &quot;We all have relatives we don't like." -- Leigh Bardugo]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/77396-a-bore-is-someone-who-deprives-you-of-solitude-without</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 08:41:36 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Oscar Wilde]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/77396-a-bore-is-someone-who-deprives-you-of-solitude-without]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." -- Oscar Wilde]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/293617-the-cyclops-was-about-to-roll-the-stone-back-into</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2022 06:55:32 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Rick Riordan]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/293617-the-cyclops-was-about-to-roll-the-stone-back-into]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["The Cyclops was about to roll the stone back into place, when from somewhere outside Annabeth shouted, &quot;Hello, ugly!&quot;

Polyphemus stiffened. &quot;Who said that?&quot;

&quot;Nobody!&quot; Annabeth yelled.

That got exactl;y the reaction she'd been hoping for. The monster's face turned red with rage.

&quot;Nobody!&quot; Polyphemus yelled back. &quot;I remember you!&quot;

&quot;You're too stupid to remember anybody,&quot; Annabeth taunted. &quot;Much less Nobody.&quot;

I hoped to the gods she was already moving when she said that, because Polyphemus bellowed furiously, grabbed the nearest boulder (which happened to be his front door) and threw it toward the sound of Annabeth's voice. I heard the rock smash into a thousand fragments.

To a terrible moment, there was silence. Then Annabeth shouted, &quot;You haven't learned to throw any better, either!&quot;

Polyphemus howled. &quot;Come here! Let me kill you, Nobody!&quot;

&quot;You can't kill Nobody, you stupid oaf,&quot; she taunted. &quot;Come find me!&quot;

Polyphemus barreled down the hill toward her voice.

Now, the &quot;Nobody&quot; thing would have confused anybody, but Annabeth had explained to me that it was the name Odysseus had used to trick Polyphemus centuries ago, right before he poked the Cyclops's eye out with a large hot stick. Annabeth had figured Polyphemus would still have a grudge about that name, and she was right. In his frenzy to find his old enemy, he forgot about resealing the cave entrance. Apparently, he did even stop to consider that Annabeth's voice was female, whereas the first Nobody had been male. On the other hand, he'd wanted to marry Grover, so he couldn't have been all that bright about the whole male/female thing.

I just hoped Annabeth could stay alive and keep distracting him long enough for me to find Grover and Clarisse." -- Rick Riordan]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/529033-um-hazel-faltered-you-mean-you-won-t-you-re-not-going</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2022 06:55:49 -0800</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Rick Riordan]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/529033-um-hazel-faltered-you-mean-you-won-t-you-re-not-going]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Um...&quot; Hazel faltered.  &quot;You mean you won't... you're not going to-&quot;
     &quot;Claim your life?&quot;  Thantos asked.  &quot;Well, let's see...&quot;  
     He pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air.  Death, tapped the screen a few times, and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reaping souls.  
     &quot;I don't see you on the list,&quot; Thantos said.  &quot;Pluto gives me specific orders for escaped souls, you see.  For some reason, he has not issued a warrant for yours.  Perhaps he feels your life is not finished, or it could be n oversight.  If you'd like me to call and ask-&quot;
     &quot;No!&quot;  Hazel yelped.  &quot;That's okay.&quot;
     &quot;Are you sure?&quot;  Death asked helpfully.  &quot;I have video-conferencing enabled.  I have his Skype address here somewhere..." -- Rick Riordan]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8219713-but-then-there-are-those-people-who-overidentify-with-their</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 13:57:45 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by mark manson]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8219713-but-then-there-are-those-people-who-overidentify-with-their]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["But then there are those people who overidentify with their emotions. Everything is justified for no other reason than they felt it. “Oh, I broke your windshield, but I was really mad; I couldn’t help it.” Or “I dropped out of school and moved to Alaska just because it felt right.”
 Decision-making based on emotional intuition, without the aid of reason to keep it in line, pretty much always sucks.
You know who bases their entire lives on their emotions? Three-year-old kids. And dogs. You know what else three-year-olds and dogs do? Shit on the carpet." -- mark manson]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7362739-the-root-problem-with-conventional-currency-is-all-the-trust</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2022 04:50:30 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Phil Champagne]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7362739-the-root-problem-with-conventional-currency-is-all-the-trust]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted notto debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve." -- Phil Champagne]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2062-i-see-in-the-fight-club-the-strongest-and-smartest</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:21:20 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Chuck Palahniuk]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2062-i-see-in-the-fight-club-the-strongest-and-smartest]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires  and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off." -- Chuck Palahniuk]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162092-it-s-come-at-last-she-thought-the-time-when-you</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:25:20 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Betty Smith]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162092-it-s-come-at-last-she-thought-the-time-when-you]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["It's come at last,&quot; she thought, &quot;the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.  When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold.  You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway.  Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from." -- Betty Smith]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/450214-virtue-is-under-certain-circumstances-merely-an-honorable-form-of</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:27:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/450214-virtue-is-under-certain-circumstances-merely-an-honorable-form-of]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the &quot;hands of God&quot;; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom." -- Friedrich Nietzsche]]>
		</description>
	</item>
	<item>
		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/506014-though-nihilism-has-been-relentlessly-criticized-for-overemphasizing-the-dark</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:28:07 -0700</pubDate>
		<title>
			<![CDATA[Anon add a quote by John Marmysz]]>
		</title>
		<link>
	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/506014-though-nihilism-has-been-relentlessly-criticized-for-overemphasizing-the-dark]]>
		</link>
		<description>
	    <![CDATA["Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power. Nihilism reminds us that we are not gods, and that despite all of the accomplishments and wonders of civilization, humans cannot alter the fact that they possess only a finite amount of mastery and control over their own destinies." -- John Marmysz]]>
		</description>
	</item>

  </channel>
</rss>
