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    Groucho Marx
    “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: gibe, insult
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    Groucho Marx
    “I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: absurd, gibe, insult
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    Groucho Marx
    “I intend to live forever, or die trying.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    Daniil Kharms
    “I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”
    ― Daniil Kharms, Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
    tags: laziness, prison
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    Daniil Kharms
    “There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn’t have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn’t talk because he had no mouth. He had no nose either. He didn’t even have arms or legs. He had no stomach, he had no back, he had no spine, and he had no innards at all. He didn’t have anything. So we don’t even know who we’re talking about. It’s better that we don’t talk about him any more.”
    ― Daniil Kharms, Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
    tags: humorous
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    Sherman Alexie
    “I grabbed my book and opened it up.

    I wanted to smell it.

    Heck, I wanted to kiss it.

    Yes, kiss it.

    That's right, I am a book kisser.

    Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
    tags: bibliophile, books
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    Sherman Alexie
    “I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: fantasy, humor, scifi
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    George R.R. Martin
    “I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: revenge
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, fear
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    Samuel Beckett
    “I can't go on, I'll go on.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
    tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy
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    Carrie Fisher
    “Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."

    Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.”
    ― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
    tags: acting, addiction, alcoholism, celebrities, dysfunctional-families, fiction, humor, producing, recovery, rehab, screenwriting, wishful-drinking, writing
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    Grant Morrison
    “It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.”
    ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum
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    Grant Morrison
    “Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”
    ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
    tags: batman, children, dreams
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The things I do for love.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: irony
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Warren Ellis
    “Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll find you. Oh, yes.”
    ― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City
    tags: character-defining, comics, humor
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    Warren Ellis
    “Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.”
    ― Warren Ellis
    tags: comics, inspirational, mad
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    Edward W. Said
    “I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.”
    ― Edward Said, Palestine
    tags: comic-books, comics, liberation, subversion
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    Grant Morrison
    “It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?”
    ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
    tags: comics, food, joker, madness
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    Grant Morrison
    “I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.”
    ― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
    tags: cold-war, comics, exploration, humanity, war
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    Mark Waid
    “Socrates should have written comics.”
    ― Mark Waid
    tags: comics, philosophy, socrates
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    Neil Gaiman
    “For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
    tags: comics, death, gaiman, graphic-novel, postmodernism, sandman
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    Will Eisner
    “Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.”
    ― Will Eisner, Comics and Sequential Art
    tags: comics
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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