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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Christopher Moore
    “Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....”
    ― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
    tags: christianity
    1001 likes

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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: philosophy
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    Douglas MacArthur
    “The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!”
    ― Douglas MacArthur
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    Matt Groening
    “Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!
    — Russ Cargill”
    ― Matt Groening
    tags: humour, simpsons
    420 likes

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    Bill Hicks
    “I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.”
    ― Bill Hicks
    tags: humour, misanthropy
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    Paul Gauguin
    “Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
    ― Paul Gauguin
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    George Plimpton
    “I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.”
    ― George Plimpton
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Robert E. Howard
    “The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!”
    ― Robert E. Howard, King Kull
    tags: barbarism, civilization, savagery
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    The Economist
    “A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.”
    ― The Economist
    tags: books, literature, reading
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    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
    tags: horror, inspirational, misattributed-to-stephen-king
    278 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
    tags: black-humor, horror, trivia
    268 likes

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    Justin Alcala
    “Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?”
    ― Justin Alcala
    tags: authors, horror, life-lessons, nightmares, nightmares-fear, reality-of-life
    239 likes

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    Jean Lorrain
    “It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.”
    ― Jean Lorrain
    tags: banality, horror, life, reality, terror, ugly
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    Fredric Brown
    “THERE IS A LOVELY LITTLE horror story about the peasant who started through the haunted wood—the wood that was, people said, inhabited by devils who took any mortal who came their way. But the peasant thought, as he walked slowly along:

    I am a good man and have done no wrong. If devils can harm me, then there isn't any justice.

    A voice behind him said, “There isn't.”
    ― Fredric Brown
    tags: a-voice-behind-him, fredric-brown, horror
    40 likes

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    Colin Wilson
    “The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.”
    ― Colin Wilson, A Criminal History of Mankind
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    Colin Wilson
    “Human intelligence is a function of man’s evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human.”
    ― Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites
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    Fredric Brown
    “The shortest horror story:

    The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
    ― Frederic Brown
    tags: funny, horror
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    David Wong
    “Fred said, “Man, I think he’s gonna make a fuckin’ suit of human skin, using the best parts from each of us.”
    “Holy crap,” said John. “He’ll be gorgeous.”
    ― David Wong, John Dies at the End
    tags: horror, humour
    128 likes

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    Caleb Carr
    “It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.”
    ― Caleb Carr
    tags: information-age, internet
    164 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: attributed, humor, physics, religion
    440 likes

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    Werner Heisenberg
    “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
    ― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers
    tags: particles, physics, quantum, reality, science, strange
    446 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Woody Allen
    “I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
    ― Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader
    tags: life
    998 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
    8370 likes

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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
    3275 likes



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