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  • #1
    Dan    Brown
    “stand tall, smile bright, and let them wonder what secrets making you laugh!”
    Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

  • #2
    Aldous Huxley
    “It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.”
    Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

  • #3
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #4
    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #5
    “My dear,
    Is it true that your mind is sometimes like a battering
    Ram

    Running all through the city,
    Shouting so madly inside and out

    About the ten thousand things
    That do not matter?”
    شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez, The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz

  • #6
    Roberto Bolaño
    “So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”
    Roberto Bolaño, 2666

  • #7
    Fannie Flagg
    “People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.”
    Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  • #8
    Woody Allen
    “If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”
    Woody Allen

  • #9
    Woody Allen
    “I can levitate birds. No one cares.”
    Woody Allen

  • #10
    Woody Allen
    “How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?”
    Woody Allen

  • #11
    Woody Allen
    “The wicked at heart probably know something.”
    Woody Allen, Without Feathers
    tags: humor

  • #12
    James    Dean
    “Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
    James Dean

  • #13
    James    Dean
    “There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.”
    James Dean

  • #14
    Randy Pausch
    “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #15
    Ezra Pound
    “I have tried to write Paradise

    Do not move
    Let the wind speak
    that is paradise.

    Let the Gods forgive what I
    have made
    Let those I love try to forgive
    what I have made.”
    Ezra Pound

  • #16
    Robert Frost
    “Some say the world will end in fire,
    Some say in ice.
    From what I've tasted of desire,
    I hold with those who favor fire.
    But if it had to perish twice
    I think I know enough of hate
    To say that for destruction ice
    Is also great
    And would suffice.”
    Robert Frost

  • #17
    Robert Frost
    “Nature's first green is gold,
    Her hardest hue to hold.
    Her early leaf's a flower;
    But only so an hour.
    Then leaf subsides to leaf.
    So Eden sank to grief,
    So dawn goes down to day.
    Nothing gold can stay.”
    Robert Frost

  • #18
    Aldous Huxley
    “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #19
    Aldous Huxley
    “Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #20
    Aldous Huxley
    “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
    Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

  • #21
    Aldous Huxley
    “Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #22
    Aldous Huxley
    “Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. III: 1930-1935

  • #23
    Kevin Brockmeier
    “How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.”
    Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer

  • #24
    Neil Gaiman
    “I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

    I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.

    I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.

    I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.

    I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.

    I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman.

    I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #25
    Emmet Fox
    “If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”
    Emmet Fox
    tags: love

  • #26
    W.C. Fields
    “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #27
    George Carlin
    “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

    But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
    George Carlin

  • #28
    C.S. Lewis
    “Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
    C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their existence. But when he saw them he knew that he had always known them and realized what part each one of them had played at many an hour in his life when he had supposed himself alone, so that now he could say to them, one by one, not ‘Who are you?’ but ‘So it was you all the time.’ All that they were and said at this meeting woke memories. The dim consciousness of friends about him which had haunted his solitudes from infancy was now at last explained; that central music in every pure experience which had always just evaded memory was now at last recovered...He saw not only Them; he saw Him. This animal, this thing begotten in a bed, could look on Him. What is blinding, suffocating fire to you is now cool light to him, is clarity itself, and wears the form of a man.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #30
    C.S. Lewis
    “The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters



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