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  • #1
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #2
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #3
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #4
    T.S. Eliot
    “I have seen the eternal Footman snicker hold my coat, and snicker. And in short I was afraid...”
    T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

  • #5
    T.S. Eliot
    “I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter;
    I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
    And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
    And in short, I was afraid.”
    T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  • #6
    T.S. Eliot
    “And I will show you something different from either
    Your shadow at morning striding behind you
    Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you
    I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
    T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

  • #7
    Arthur Miller
    “Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
    Arthur Miller

  • #8
    A.A. Milne
    “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #9
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #10
    Arthur Miller
    “See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...”
    Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

  • #11
    Arthur Miller
    “The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.”
    Arthur Miller

  • #12
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #13
    Christopher Hitchens
    “The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #14
    Steve Toltz
    “...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.”
    Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

  • #15
    Kahlil Gibran
    “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.”
    Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #16
    Jean Baudrillard
    “The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”
    Jean Baudrillard, Fragments

  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."

    [Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

  • #18
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #19
    Kahlil Gibran
    “One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #20
    Winston S. Churchill
    “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
    inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #22
    Winston S. Churchill
    “You create your own universe as you go along.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #22
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
    Christopher Marlowe

  • #23
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    Mark Twain

  • #25
    Christopher Marlowe
    “What nourishes me, destroys me”
    Christopher Marlowe

  • #26
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit.”
    Christopher Marlowe

  • #27
    James Joyce
    “Let my country die for me.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: war

  • #28
    Ingmar Bergman
    “Death: Do you never stop questioning?
    Antonius Block: No. I never stop.”
    Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal

  • #29
    James Joyce
    “(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #30
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars.”
    Christopher Marlowe



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