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  • #1
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #4
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #5
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #7
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #8
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #9
    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    Herbert Hoover

  • #10
    Christopher Moore
    “And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.”
    Christopher Moore, Bite Me

  • #11
    Thomas Jefferson
    “We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation.

    The Ambassador [of Tripoli] answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.

    {Letter from the commissioners, John Adams & Thomas Jefferson, to John Jay, 28 March 1786}”
    Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

  • #12
    Thomas Jefferson
    “...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
    Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

  • #13
    John Keats
    “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
    John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

  • #14
    Shel Silverstein
    “Nobody loves me, nobody cares,
    Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
    Nobody offers me candy and Cokes,
    Nobody listens and laughs at me jokes.
    Nobody helps when I get into a fight,
    Nobody does all my homework at night.
    Nobody misses me,
    Nobody cries,
    Nobody thinks I'm a wonderful guy.
    So, if you ask me who's my best friend, in a whiz,
    I'll stand up and tell you NOBODY is!
    But yesterday night I got quite a scare
    I woke up and Nobody just WASN'T there!
    I called out and reached for Nobody's hand,
    In the darkness where Nobody usually stands,
    Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook,
    But I found SOMEBODY each place that I looked.
    I seached till I'm tired, and now with the dawn,
    There's no doubt about it-
    NOBODY'S GONE!!”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #15
    Shel Silverstein
    “If you have to dry the dishes
    (Such an awful boring chore)
    If you have to dry the dishes
    ('Stead of going to the store)
    If you have to dry the dishes
    And you drop one on the floor
    Maybe they won't let you
    Dry the dishes anymore”
    Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

  • #16
    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    Robert Fulghum, True Love

  • #17
    Ray Bradbury
    “The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”
    Ray Bradbury, The October Country

  • #18
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #19
    Libba Bray
    “The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.”
    Libba Bray, Going Bovine

  • #20
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #21
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #22
    Howard Thurman
    “Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
    Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart

  • #23
    Veronica Roth
    “People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #24
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

  • #25
    O. Henry
    “Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
    O. Henry

  • #26
    Gayle Forman
    “And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.”
    Gayle Forman, If I Stay

  • #27
    Gayle Forman
    “Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
    Gayle Forman, If I Stay

  • #28
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins



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