“There are no such things as synonyms!" he practically shouted. "Deluge is not the same as flood.”
“We are synonyms but not the same.”
“Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.”
“Love and hate are practically the same thing.”
“Vengence, betrayal, and love they all are synonyms for the same word: fake.”
“He also remembered a comedy he had read in his youth called “The Deluge”, which claimed the next great flood would be caused not by water from the heavens but by the backing up and over flowing of all the toilets, latrines, cesspools and septic tanks in the world which would start chucking up their contents relentlessly until we all drowned in our own shit.”