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“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
― Albert Einstein

“I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.”
― Tony Kushner, Perestroika

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

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

“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
― Confucius

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Things do not change; we change.”
― henry david thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your own clothes.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
― Steven Wright

“Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.”
― Steven Wright

“Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.”
― Steven Wright

“Why are there five syllables in the word “monosyllabic”?”
― Steven Wright

“If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?”
― Steven Wright

“What is the speed of dark?”
― steven wright

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“Polka will never die.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Kincaid! Bolshevik Muppet!”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites