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Adam Levin QUOTES

1 " Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

2 " Don't you feel as though you could love everything starting tomorrow, and everything could love you, if only you took an action to set into motion the coming of our new tomorrow and its tomorrow and that one's tomorrow? Shotgun loaded hand on the pump and no matter who you damage you're still a false prophet, but we drink chocolate milk and then we get muscles and smash down the droves with fists like hammers and then we pump the fists in the air for victory. I be the prophet of the doom that is you. You are the mess in messiah. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

3 " I feel like a millionaire on the back of an armored jet-ski my samurai girlfriend who loves me is charging at a cartel speedboat to win a game of chicken. Isn’t this the day’s best part? You don’t even have to remember to enjoy it. It enjoys you into itself. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

4 " The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

5 " Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

6 " Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice? "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

7 " There’d be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we’d die unstoried deaths. "

― Adam Levin , Hot Pink

8 " Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

9 " You can render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but if you don't keep from Caesar that which is yours, Caesar will take some, and than take some more, and if you don't put a stop to it, though you won't lose everything - you can't lose everything; there's things he can't take, at least one or two - a time will soon come when you'll think you've lost everything, when you'll think all is Caesar's, and by then you'll be too weak to take what's yours back, too tired to remember what was yours to begin with, and you'll end up, perversely, scheming for his leavings and, even more perversely, grateful when you get them. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

10 " It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

11 " ...I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't... "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

12 " If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

13 " We are not taught to abide injustice through our faith; we are not taught to wait for Adonai to reach a hand down and save us. We are taught to faithfully destroy injustice; we are taught that to do so will force His hand. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

14 " To pay a price in advance, to the unjust, a price to prevent advances against your physical integrity -- that is to compromise your dignity. And dignity compromised is no longer dignity. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

15 " He described the experience as being 'a little bit less fun, perhaps, than chain-smoking for ninety minutes while handcuffed to a dowager with asthma who used to teach Health and smells incontinent. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

16 " And that is why, when he finally did come across the street, I lit my cigarette with my lighter - not to make him feel like a fool who had fallen for a trick, but rather because he had said, 'you had better luck with matches,' when in fact I had not. It was not the matches that brought him across the street. It was the matches that kept him on the bench. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

17 " To win their battles, these kinds of underdogs rely on their own and one another's ability to absorb violence. They find their might in their nature. They believe victory is assured by their nature, and as long as they act in accordance with their nature, they will claim it. Because they are able to fight, they must fight. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

18 " If you know your mom is a great killer, and you think of your mom as a great killer, and you know she would kill for you, not just metaphorically, but really end lives for you, without hesitation, you don't want to make her sad and worried because how can you repay her for all the things she's willing to do? You can't. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

19 " Easy as a child breathes a wish at a dandelion...is exactly how hard it would be for me to tear your limbs from their sockets. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions

20 " Most people, Gurion, most people do not violate boundaries, do not defy governance, and most of them come out intact, whereas very few of those who act lawlessly do. And that is why school is so much about following rules. You are here, above all else, to learn to live lawfully for the rest of your life. You are here to learn how to exist in cages without acting as if they are cages, to live like mensches despite being locked in cages. You are here to learn to survive in the world. That is the most basic purpose of our educational system, and it is a high purpose. "

― Adam Levin , The Instructions