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“My name is immaterial,' she said.
That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all! What a child wants -and DESERVES- is a parent who is SPARKY!" - Danny, the champion of the world.”
― Roald Dahl , Danny the Champion of the World

“On this Thursday, on this particular walk to school, there was an old frog croaking in the stream behind the hedge as we went by.
'Can you hear him, Danny?'
'Yes,' I said,
'That is a bullfrog calling to his wife. He does it by blowing out his dewlap and letting it go with a burp.'
'What is a dewlap?' I asked.
'It's the loose skin on his throat. He can blow it up just like a balloon.'
'What happens when his wife hears him?'
'She goes hopping over to him. She is very happy to have been invited. But I'll tell you something very funny about the old bullfrog. He often becomes so pleased with the sound of his own voice that his wife has to nudge him several times before he'll stop his burping and turn round to hug her.'
That made me laugh.
'Dont laugh too loud,' he said, twinkling at me with his eyes. 'We men are not so very different from the bullfrog.”
― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World

“He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“I wish to live in peace with myself and not with the world.”
― Danilo Kiš, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

“The temporary suffering of existence is worth more than the final void of nothingness.”
― Danilo Kiš, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

“Ne moraš sebe da voliš, ali moraš da poštuješ sebe. I nije najvažnije da budeš srećan. Sreća je samo jedna od mogućih posledica.”
― Ivan Tokin, Najnormalniji čovek na svetu

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Every hill, still
Every tree alive. Every leaf
All the slopes flow,
old woods,new seedlings,
tall grasses, plumes”
― Gary Snyder

“If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“What one forgets once he will often forget again.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

“We had better rate our important parts-our thoughts, feelings, and actions-to see how they helped or hindered us. But-damn it!-we didn't have to rate our self, our being, our essence. Our self or personhood was too complex to be given a global rating. We could say, for practical reasons, it was "good"-meaning it helped us to live and enjoy. Or we could say that it just didn't have to be rated at all. Use our self but not rate it!”
― Albert Ellis, The Myth of Self-esteem: How Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Can Change Your Life Forever

“Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.”
― Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

“Neki ljudi nas ponižavaju svojom dobrotom. Odvikli smo se od dobrote. Ne razumemo zašto nam neko nešto čini, ako ne traži nikakvu protivuslugu. Dobrota se ne može vratiti, jer se i ne daje. Dobri ljudi su dobri zbog sebe, a ne zbog drugih.”
― Dušan Radović

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est." (Roughly, "They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.")”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Najposle meni nikog nije žao, najmanje sebe. Mi treba da nestanemo, mi nismo za život, mi smo za smrt. Za nama će doći bolje stoleće, ono uvek dolazi.”
― Miloš Crnjanski, Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću

“Ja osetih na sebi topli pokrivaĉ njen, koji je mirisao na njene dojke. Ona je kleĉala preda mnom, na meni, iza mene. Njen glas se javljao svud. Njene vlasi sam nalazio svud: u knjigama, u jelu i oko vrata. Ona mi je sve ĉinila po volji. Po ceo dan ona bi gledala, da mi sve, što hoću, doda. Pitala me i molila da ĉuvam zdravlje. Nije volela nikud izlaziti. Njen hod beše nabujao i vitak, njene lepe noge savijale se oštro. Rano u zoru, kad bih otvorio oĉi, video bih je kako skoro sasvim gola leži na mojim grudima.”
― Miloš Crnjanski, Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću

“I često kad bi ga ona u meseĉini dočekala zagrljajem on bi primetio jedno rumeno stablo i priljubio se uz njega i grčevito ga ljubio i tepao. A ona bi stojeći ostavljala ga, otišla u stranu i plakala.”
― Miloš Crnjanski, Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću