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  • #1
    Bill Watterson
    “Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #2
    Bill Watterson
    “Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!”
    Bill Watterson

  • #3
    Bill Watterson
    “I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #4
    Henry Miller
    “I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.”
    Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

  • #5
    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    Herman Hesse

  • #6
    Hermann Hesse
    “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

  • #7
    Hermann Hesse
    “Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
    Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

  • #8
    Hermann Hesse
    “In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”
    Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

  • #9
    Hermann Hesse
    “I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.”
    Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

  • #10
    Hermann Hesse
    “How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.”
    Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

  • #11
    Hermann Hesse
    “But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.”
    Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

  • #12
    S.E. Hinton
    “Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.”
    S.E. Hinton, Rumble Fish

  • #13
    S.E. Hinton
    “California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.”
    S.E. Hinton, Rumble Fish

  • #14
    S.E. Hinton
    “Yeah," I said. "And I'm gonna look just like him."
    The black cat paused and looked me over.
    "No you ain't baby. That cat is a prince, man. He is royalty in exile. You ain't never gonna look like that.”
    S.E. Hinton, Rumble Fish

  • #15
    Kate Chisman
    “We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.”
    Kate Chisman, Run

  • #16
    Stephanie Klein
    “What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”
    Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

  • #17
    William S. Burroughs
    “Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.”
    William S. Burroughs, Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts

  • #18
    Coco Chanel
    “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #19
    James Rozoff
    “Vulgarity is like a fine wine: it should only be uncorked on a special occasion, and then only shared with the right group of people.”
    James Rozoff

  • #20
    Werner Herzog
    “If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.”
    Werner Herzog

  • #21
    Pablo Picasso
    “You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #22
    John Marshall Harlan
    “[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.”
    John Marshall Harlan

  • #23
    Bryant McGill
    “Only the vulgar reveal all.”
    Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

  • #24
    James Carlos Blake
    “I've never been given to casual use of vulgar language--unwarranted profanity implies mental laziness--but there's no other way to say this: a guy tries to fuck me ... well, fuck him.”
    James Carlos Blake, Handsome Harry

  • #25
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #26
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you used to own, now they own you.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #27
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #28
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #29
    Henry Miller
    “Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
    Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

  • #30
    Henry Miller
    “One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
    Henry Miller



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