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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.”
― Constantine P. Cavafy

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Kάποτε υπήρχε μόνο ένα νησί και τώρα πηγαίνουν όλοι σε κανένα νησί, να πάμε σε κανένα νησί, θα είναι σε κανένα νησί, θα ανακαλύψουν κανένα νησί. Η Βάνα θα βρίσκεται σε κανένα νησί αυτή τη στιγμή, θα πίνει κανένα ποτό. Πίνουν διάφορα ποτά, ταξιδεύουν σε διάφορα νησιά, έχουν συνεχώς την αίσθηση ότι δεν ήπιαν ακόμα τίποτα, δεν πήγαν πουθενά. Τα ανακατεύουν για να ξεχάσουν ότι υπάρχει μόνο ένα νησί, μια παραλία, ένα ποτό.”
― Χρήστος Βακαλόπουλος, Η γραμμή του ορίζοντος

“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
― Robert Graves

“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
― Peter Ustinov

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
― Maurice Sendak

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez