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#1

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: melancholy, pleasure, sad, sorrow

688 likes

#2

“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: communism

301 likes

#3

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

5521 likes

#4

“A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

tags: comedy, drugs

520 likes

#5

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

11724 likes

#6

“The fire crackled up the stairs. It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly crisping the canvases into black shavings.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

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#7

“The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

tags: house

13 likes

#8

“Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

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#9

“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: syllogism

557 likes

#10

“I could carve a better man out of a banana.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

65 likes

#11

“Memory, he added in a postscript, often strikes me as a kind of a dumbness. It makes one's head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds”
― W.G. Sebald, The Emigrants

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#12

“History is merely a list of surprises,' I said. 'It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.”
― kurt vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

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#13

“It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

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#14

“The attic is not haunting your head – your head is haunting the attic. Some heads are more haunted than others, whether they are haunted by ghosts or by gods or by creatures from outer space.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

22 likes

#15

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: garcin, hell, people

2334 likes

#16

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

3952 likes

#17

“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
― Pythagoras

tags: silence, words

416 likes

#18

“Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself, but others.”
― Shannon Alder

242 likes

#19

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

tags: philosophy, taoism

716 likes

#20

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: insanity, love, marriage

1730 likes

#21

“Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: false, holy-book, holy-religion, humor, irony, profane, sacred, scripture, scriptures

193 likes

#22

“Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: definition, humor, universe

276 likes

#23

“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”
― Ambrose Bierce

62 likes

#24

“acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”
― Ambrose Bierce

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#25

“This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories

tags: amnesia, memory

13 likes

#26

“he had nothing to say and he said it”
― Ambrose Bierce

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#27

“A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

tags: celebrity, fame

39 likes

#28

“Sooner or later, everything turns into television.”
― J.G. Ballard

66 likes

#29

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
― William James

tags: attributed, honesty, integrity, philosophy, wisdom

713 likes

#30

“Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

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