Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 391)
“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Original: (99) Rahim Khan
Variant: It was Homaira and me against the world.... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 112-113
Douglas Murray (1979) British political commentator and far-right activist
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017)
Larry Niven book Flash Crowd
Flash Crowd, section 7, in Three Trips in Time and Space (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg, p. 65
Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night
Source: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 5
Context: Then I fell sick, I was delirious, driven mad by fear, they said at the hospital. Maybe so. The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.
“Sex, drugs, and image is just enough to get you by in the real world”
Daniel Johns (1979) Australian musician
Dearest Helpless
Song lyrics, Neon Ballroom (1999)
“I always have a problem liking things I'm told I should like.”
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
