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  • #1
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #5
    Will Rogers
    “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
    Will Rogers

  • #6
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #7
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, Foxfire: Confessions Of A Girl Gang

  • #8
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless : Tales of Transgression

  • #9
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

  • #10
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #11
    Evelyn Waugh
    “The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #12
    Joseph Heller
    “The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #13
    Joseph Heller
    “[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #14
    Joseph Heller
    “It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
    joseph heller, Catch-22

  • #15
    Joseph Heller
    “It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #16
    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #17
    Saul D. Alinsky
    “A word about my personal philosophy. It is anchored in optimism. It must be, for optimism brings with it hope, a future with a purpose, and therefore, a will to fight for a better world. Without this optimism, there is no reason to carry on. If we think of the struggle as aclimb up a mountain, then we must visualize a mountain with no top. We see a top, but when we finall yreach it, the overcast rises and we find ourselves merely on a bluff. The mountain continues on up. Now we see the "real" top ahead of us, and strive for it, only to find we've reached another bluff, the top still above us. And so it goes on, interminably.
    Knowing that the mountain has no top, that it is a perpetual quest from plateau to plateau, the question arises, "Why the struggle, the conflict, the heartbreak, the danger, the sacrifice. Why the constant climb?" Our answer is the same as that which a real mountain climber gives when he is asked why he does what he does. "Because it's there." Because life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the known. Paradocically, they give up the dream of what may lie ahead on the heighs of tomorrow for a perpetual nightmare - an endless succession of days fearing the loss of a tenuous security.”
    Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

  • #18
    Saul D. Alinsky
    “If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.”
    Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

  • #19
    Saul D. Alinsky
    “Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.”
    Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

  • #20
    Saul D. Alinsky
    “It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral;”
    Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #24
    Neil Gaiman
    “Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #25
    Neil Gaiman
    “This isn't about what is . . . it's about what people think is. It's all imaginary anyway. That's why it's important. People only fight over imaginary things.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #27
    Neil Gaiman
    “He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #28
    Neil Gaiman
    “Tell him that we fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #29
    Neil Gaiman
    “Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #30
    Neil Gaiman
    “This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is."
    "What?"
    "The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods



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