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  • #1
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #2
    “I was never attracted to big things―convertible Porsche's, mansions, fame, and money. I always found those things to be repulsive and energy-draining. Give me the gutters, the junkyards, the bars, the liquor stores, the grimy graffiti-ridden back alleys, the insane asylums, the pimps, the hookers, the preachers, the old, the drunkards, the junkies, the homeless, the madmen, and the madwomen. Wherever the ghetto is, that's where life is. It doesn't matter where you live, United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, you won't find a liveliness like in the ghetto anywhere else. They're the things that refill my energy tank and keep me going. Anything out of that realm is just plain, dull, and boring. Give me the cheap and effortless lifestyle. The factory job, the small one-bedroom apartments, the whores, the Budweiser six-packs, the hand-rolled cigarettes, the Tom Waits vinyls, and the old vintage typewriters. I'll be alright.”
    Robert Nemerovski

  • #3
    Charles Bukowski
    “We are here to drink beer. We are here to end war. We are here to laugh at the odds, and live life so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    James Frey
    “The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.”
    James Frey, Bright Shiny Morning

  • #6
    James Frey
    “A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center.”
    James Frey, Bright Shiny Morning

  • #7
    Oscar Levant
    “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
    Oscar Levant

  • #8
    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    Aristotle

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

  • #11
    Carl Sagan
    “But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
    Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

  • #12
    Pearl S. Buck
    “The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
    without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #13
    Jonathan Swift
    “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

    [Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
    Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

  • #14
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • #15
    Charles Bukowski
    “The Genius Of The Crowd

    there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
    human being to supply any given army on any given day

    and the best at murder are those who preach against it
    and the best at hate are those who preach love
    and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

    those who preach god, need god
    those who preach peace do not have peace
    those who preach peace do not have love

    beware the preachers
    beware the knowers
    beware those who are always reading books
    beware those who either detest poverty
    or are proud of it
    beware those quick to praise
    for they need praise in return
    beware those who are quick to censor
    they are afraid of what they do not know
    beware those who seek constant crowds for
    they are nothing alone
    beware the average man the average woman
    beware their love, their love is average
    seeks average

    but there is genius in their hatred
    there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
    to kill anybody
    not wanting solitude
    not understanding solitude
    they will attempt to destroy anything
    that differs from their own
    not being able to create art
    they will not understand art
    they will consider their failure as creators
    only as a failure of the world
    not being able to love fully
    they will believe your love incomplete
    and then they will hate you
    and their hatred will be perfect

    like a shining diamond
    like a knife
    like a mountain
    like a tiger
    like hemlock

    their finest art”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #16
    Jarod Kintz
    “Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about a thousand words from a rambler vs. 500 words from Mark Twain? He could say the same thing quicker and with more force than almost any other writer. One thousand words from Ginsberg are not even worth one from Wilde. It’s wild to declare the equivalency of any picture with any army of 1,000 words. Words from a writer like Wordsworth make you appreciate what words are worth.”
    Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

  • #17
    Criss Jami
    “When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”
    Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

  • #18
    Abigail Adams
    “These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
    Abigail Adams

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “E=mc2”
    Albert Einstein, The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays

  • #20
    Eoin Colfer
    “Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox

  • #21
    Anthony Horowitz
    “Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”
    Anthony Horowitz, The House of Silk

  • #22
    B.F. Skinner
    “The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”
    B.F. Skinner, Walden Two

  • #23
    Julian Barnes
    “WHORES.
    Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #24
    “Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.”
    Michael R. LeGault

  • #25
    Herman Melville
    “Genius is full of trash.”
    Herman Melville

  • #26
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #27
    Richard P. Feynman
    “If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.”
    Richard Feynman

  • #28
    Guillermo del Toro
    “Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.”
    Guillermo del Toro

  • #29
    “We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.”
    David Mamet

  • #30
    Charlotte Brontë
    “If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on which they stamp their imprint? I believe that genius, thus awakened, has no need to seek out details, that it scarcely pauses to reflect, that it never thinks of unity: I believe that the details come naturally without search by the poet, that inspiration takes the place of reflection and as for unity, I think there is no unity so perfect as that which results from a heart filled with a single idea...The nature of genius is related to that of instinct; it's operation is both simple and marvelous.”
    Charlotte Brontë



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