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“Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?”
― Ian Frazier, On the Rez

“Never trust a man in a jumpsuit”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

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― e.e. cummings

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”
― E.E. Cummings

“One's not half of two; two are halves of one.”
― E.E. Cummings

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
― Raymond Chandler

“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
― Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.”
― Annie Proulx (Brokeback Mountain)

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”
― Paul Krugman

“I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.”
― Paul Krugman

“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
― Charles Bukowski

“sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva sweet love

(all the merry little birds are
flying in the floating in the
very spirits singing in
are winging in the blossoming)

lovers go and lovers come
awandering awondering
but any two are perfectly
alone there's nobody else alive

(such a sky and such a sun
i never knew and neither did you
and everybody never breathed
quite so many kinds of yes)

not a tree can count his leaves
each herself by opening
but shining who by thousands mean
only one amazing thing

(secretly adoring shyly
tiny winging darting floating
merry in the blossoming
always joyful selves are singing)

sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva sweet love”
― E. e. cummings

“I am committing suicide by cigarette,” I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn’t. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks. My brand is Pall Mall. The authentic suicides ask for Pall Malls. The dilettantes ask for Pell Mells.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House