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  • #1
    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    Robert Bloch

  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #7
    “Old contradictions never die; they just get new outfits.”
    Susan J. Douglas

  • #8
    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    George Carlin

  • #9
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #10
    Stephen  King
    “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
    Stephen King

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
    Stephen King

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.”
    Stephen King

  • #13
    Donnie Eichar
    “I don't remember Sherlock Holmes ever mentioning what you are supposed to do when you've eliminated everything improbable, and nothing is left.”
    Donnie Eichar, Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

  • #14
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #15
    Tom    Clark
    “Lake Insanity lay broad and strange before them, a still reflecting pool for the frightened, confused moon.”
    Tom Clark, The Spell: A Romance

  • #16
    “The basic human craving is for meaning.”
    Colin Argyle Thomson, Swift Runner

  • #17
    Peter Macinnis
    “There is a remarkably distinctive smell emitted by fearful bureaucrats. It is acrid, rank, and seems to cling to the clothing and the hair.”
    Peter Macinnis, The Killer Bean of Calabar and Other Stories

  • #18
    Douglas Adams
    “If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.”
    Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

  • #19
    Mark Olshaker
    “Without the sense that individuals are responsible for their own actions, and that there are appropriate consequences to violating society's most basic values, the concepts of morality and right and wrong become meaningless. And then you have no society.”
    Mark Olshaker, Law & Disorder: The Legendary FBI Profiler's Relentless Pursuit of Justice

  • #20
    “Were crimes respected? Well, yes. In a sense they were. They gave employment, do you see, to a vast number of people -- policemen, judges, lawyers and such like, who would otherwise have had no place in society.”
    Frank Baker, The Birds

  • #21
    Graham Chapman
    “...A secure future seemed mapped out for me. Too secure, too mapped out. If I carried on in medicine, I realized I'd have a pretty good idea exactly what I'd be doing ten, twenty and even thirty years from that moment. It struck me like a halibut from the North Sea that that was not the way my life should go at all. What was the point of working on through the age of sixty-five and taking a chance on a better reincarnation next time?”
    Graham Chapman, A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI

  • #22
    Theodore Roscoe
    “Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.”
    Theodore Roscoe, Only In New England: The Story of A Gaslight Crime

  • #23
    “People generally err in regarding policemen as either saints or crooks. They are at neither extreme. They are people.”
    Howard Whitman, Terror in the Streets

  • #24
    Robert K. Tanenbaum
    “...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk wagon.”
    Robert K. Tanenbaum, Absolute Rage

  • #25
    Robert K. Tanenbaum
    “One of the most corrosive aspects of the criminal justice system is its toleration of the insanity defense...Legitimate in some few cases, the insanity defense has been rendered farcical through its manipulation by so-called experts.”
    Robert K. Tanenbaum, The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer
    tags: law

  • #26
    Audrey Hepburn
    “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #27
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #28
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #30
    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #31
    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    Franz Kafka



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