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“Goodbye blue Monday.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her.
"Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me.
"The big show is inside my head," I said.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“I can have oodles of charm when I want to.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one:
ETC.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“سمّاني الناس مجنونا، غير أن العلم لم يكشف لنا بعد فيما إذا كان الجنون ذروة الذكاء أم لا، وفيما إذا كان كل ما يسمى مجدا وكل ما يسمى عمقا ليسا آتيين من مرض فكري، من حالة روحية تتمجد وتنمو على حساب الذهن العام. هؤلاء الذين يحلمون وهم أيقاظ يعرفون أشياء كثيرة تفلت من هؤلاء الذين لا يحلمون إلا وهم نيام. إنهم يلتقطون - في رؤاهم المغيّمة - لمحات من الأبدية، وإذ يستيقظون يرتعشون لتنبههم أنهم كانوا للحظةٍ على ضفة السر العظيم. إنهم يدركون - جزءا فجزءا - شيئا من معرفة الخير، وأكثر أيضا من علم الشر. وهم - بلا دفة ولا بوصلة - يخترقون المحيط الواسع للضياء الذي لا يوصف.”
― إدجار آلان بو, مغامرات وأسرار

“إذا كنا لا نستطيع أن نفهم الله في أعماله المرئية، فكيف إذن سنفهمه في أفكاره التي لا يحاط بها والتي تدفع بهذه الأعمال إلى الوجود؟”
― إدجار آلان بو, مغامرات وأسرار

“I have been happy, though in a dream.
I have been happy-and I love the theme:
Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life
As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.I heard many things in hell.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

“Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“Nemo impune me lacessit!!”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Fish cannot carry guns.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS