„She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.“

— Terry Pratchett

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„Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.“
— Terry Pratchett
„Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.“
— Pablo Picasso
„you can’t fool all the people all the time,” but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.“
— Will Durant
„(On prostitution:) Incest is boot camp. Incest is where you send the girl to learn how to do it. So you don't, obviously, have to send her anywhere, she's already there and she's got nowhere else to go. She's trained. And the training is specific and it is important: not to have any real boundaries to her own body; to know that she's valued only for sex; to learn about men what the offender, the sex offender, is teaching her.“
— Andrea Dworkin
„Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.“
— Cassandra Clare