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

“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
― W.C. Fields

“I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”
― Stephen Bishop

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
― Lemony Snicket

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
― Epictetus

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
― George Carlin

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites