“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood
Source: The Year of the Flood
“Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.”
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 4, Spaces And Dreams, p. 159.
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