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The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.

The whole damn century would’ve made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.
– Rebecca Makkai

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  1. The whole damn century would’ve made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began. – Rebecca Makkai
  2. The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as -œthe century of superficiality. – Billy Graham
  3. …all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies. – Rebecca Makkai
  4. This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. – Rachel Higginson
  5. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
  6. Don’t, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world – never to your own damn, silly stupid self. – Fakeer Ishavardas
  7. It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. – Ron Paul
  8. Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. – Martin Amis
  9. Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other. – Abhijit Naskar
  10. They joined hands.So the world ended.And the next one began. – Sarah J Maas
  11. Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began. – Scott Westerfeld
  12. Where she ended, he began. – Donna Grant
  13. What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession. – Billy Graham
  14. It began with a hello, and ended in hell. – Anthony Liccione
  15. What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits. – Khaled Hosseini
  16. Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended. – Dennis Lehane
  17. It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others. – Anne McCaffrey
  18. A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything. – Louise Penny
  19. Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began. – SJ Watson
  20. No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood. – Timothy Snyder
  21. Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street. – Rebecca Solnit
  22. When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die. – William Saroyan
  23. God’s love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move. – Billy Graham
  24. Damn and double damn the man. So much for I am woman, hear me roar. More like I am gobsmacked, watch me drool. – Jane Cousins
  25. No one will give a damn about you and your excellence unless you give a damn about yourself. – Abhijit Naskar
  26. Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it’s damn good for you. – JRR Tolkien
  27. You’re too damn beautiful for your own good.Hell,you’re too damn beautiful for my own good – Caisey Quinn
  28. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  29. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  30. Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. – Richard Llewellyn
  31. A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century. – Swami Vivekananda
  32. Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon. – Eraldo Banovac
  33. After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? – Dejan Stojanovic
  34. The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness. – Kb Abe
  35. My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges. – SA Tawks
  36. As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy’s innate sense of responsibility. -“ Arthur Schlesinger – David Pietrusza
  37. Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don’t make a damn bit of sense. – Larry McMurtry
  38. Why do they lie?- she asked herself aloud. -œThey say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse. – Rebecca McNutt
  39. Not being liked was so much worse than being invisible. – Rebecca Donovan
  40. I think he won a tiny piece of my heart that day. If he didn’t have the whole damn thing before then, he certainly had part of it now. – NR Walker

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