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  • #1
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #2
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #3
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #4
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #5
    C. JoyBell C.
    “There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #6
    Alyson Noel
    “Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.”
    Alyson Noel, Blue Moon

  • #7
    Jack Kerouac
    “I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #8
    Richard Yates
    “It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”
    Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

  • #9
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, ....whence it becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those persons, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or accidental condition of circumstance.”
    Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson: Writings

  • #10
    Paul Neilan
    “It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If she wanted to think that apathy and independence were the same thing, good for her. Maybe she was right.”
    Paul Neilan, Apathy and Other Small Victories

  • #11
    David  Wong
    “Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I do. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives a Fuck.”
    David Wong, John Dies at the End

  • #12
    Paul Neilan
    “The world is your oyster...
    ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.”
    Paul Neilan, Apathy and Other Small Victories

  • #13
    Richard Yates
    “The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.”
    Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

  • #14
    Kyung-Sook Shin
    “Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every rapid current and helped me cross that water safely. I was happy that you were there. I came to tell you I was able to travel through my life because I could come to you when I was anxious, not when I was happy.”
    Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom
    tags: moms

  • #15
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #16
    Deb Caletti
    “If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #17
    Jandy Nelson
    “There were once two sisters
    who were not afriad of the dark
    because the dark was full of the other's voice
    across the room,
    because even when the night was thick
    and starless
    they walked home together from the river
    seeing who could last the longest
    without turning on her flashlight,
    not afraid
    because sometimes in the pitch of night
    they'd lie on their backs
    in the middle of the path
    and look up until the stars came back
    and when they did,
    they'd reach their arms up to touch them
    and did.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #18
    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    Joseph Conrad, Chance

  • #19
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #20
    John Lennon
    “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
    John Lennon

  • #21
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #22
    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #23
    George Carlin
    “Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
    George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

  • #24
    Mae West
    “I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
    Mae West

  • #25
    Louis de Bernières
    “Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.”
    Louis de Bernières, Corelli’s Mandolin

  • #26
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

  • #28
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I love you sons of bitches. You’re all I read any more. You're the only ones who’ll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that’ll last for billions of years. You’re the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

  • #29
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five



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