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

tags: horror, inspirational, misattributed-to-stephen-king

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#3

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

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#4

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#5

“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

tags: humor-satan

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#6

“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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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#7

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

tags: humor, social-criticism

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#8

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

tags: benediction, evil, goodwill, humor, inspirational, wishes

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#9

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

tags: communication, misattributed, misunderstanding

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#10

“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

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#11

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

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#12

“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

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#13

“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

tags: investigation, mystery

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#14

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

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

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#15

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

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#16

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

tags: mental-health, true-crime

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#17

“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

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#18

“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

tags: david-bowie, h2g2, hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy

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#19

“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

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#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

tags: post-apocalyptic

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#21

“...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

tags: humor, memoir

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#22

“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

tags: true-crime

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#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

tags: true-crime

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#24

“...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

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#25

“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

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#26

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

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational

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#27

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#28

“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

tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge

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#29

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

tags: books, morality, reading

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#30

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

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#31

“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

tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing

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