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“Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.”
― Steven Brust

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
― Paul Theroux

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
― Steven Wright

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason”
― Jerry Seinfeld

“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
― Woody Allen

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”
― Ingrid Bergman

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
― Woody Allen

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

“I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.”
― Steven Wright

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

“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”
― Tim O'Reilly

“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

“If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!”
― Clark Adams

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
― Charles Bukowski

“It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.”
― Charles Bukowski