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“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality”
― Ayn Rand

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

“The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong. . . . There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

“The main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”
― George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbor that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him. A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man & Prison Writings

“A conglomerate heap of trash, that’s what I am. But it burns with a high flame.”
― Ray Bradbury

“To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant —
because you're always going against the conformity of the group.”
― Philip G. Zimbardo

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“We want him to see that as a result of being parented by imperfect parents, he (she) chooses the wrong people for the right things, and chooses the right people for the wrong things. And most of all, they do not want to see it.”
― Karl A. Menninger

“Naturally, this country can't stand truth.”
― Lewis H. Michaux

“The longer I live the more I see that I am seldom wrong about anything, and that all the pains, whether in a boxing ring, a combat zone or an operating table, I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.”
― Wayne Kelly

“The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice.”
― "Irish" Wayne Kelly

“This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you—the fear just leaves”
― Erykah Badu

“It's time to reconnect to people you like and get rid of people you don't like....We need to live.”
― "Irish" Wayne Kelly

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
― Jim Morrison

“Writers are fortunate in that they are able to treat their neurosis every day by writing and as soon as the writer is blocked—this is catastrophic because the writer will start to go to pieces.”
― Edmund Bergler, The Writer and Psychoanalysis

“That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can get from each other and that's determined by how much you're giving to each other. But it all starts within our self and then it spreads to those around us, good and bad. But basically, that's it, I think it's the love that we can generate is equal to the love that we get back ... Amen.”
― George Harrison, Cloud Nine

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
― Lao Tzu

“I write poetry not for publication but merely to kill time. Airplanes are a good place to write poetry and then throw it away. My collected works are mostly on the vomit bags of Lufthansa.”
― "Irish" Wayne Kelly

“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.”
― Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Black is beautiful. Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’.”
― Lewis H. Michaux

“Do the kind of things that come from the heart.  When you do you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things..On the contrary, you will be overwhelmed with what comes back.”
― Wayne Kelly

“It takes a long time to become young”
― Pablo Picasso

“It's easier to throw away a child who reacts to his abuse than attempt to heal his pain.”
― Dwight E. Abbott, I Cried, You Didn't Listen

“Perseverance and audacity generally win.”
― Dorothée DeLuzy

“Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.”
― "Irish" Wayne Kelly