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#1

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

tags: books, humor

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#2

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

tags: life, reading

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#3

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
― Woody Allen

tags: life

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#4

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
― Anthony G. Oettinger

tags: humor, misattributed-to-groucho-marx, time

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#5

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy

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#6

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#7

“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: humor

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#8

“Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: absurd

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#9

“Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?”
― Groucho Marx

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#10

“Do you mind if I don't smoke?”
― Groucho Marx

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#11

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#12

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

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#14

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: love, madness

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#15

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-stereotypes

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#16

“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.”
― Rodney Dangerfield

tags: marriage

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#17

“Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.”
― Raymond Chandler

tags: art

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#18

“I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: detectives, sharp

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#19

“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
― Raymond Chandler

tags: writing

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#20

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck

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#21

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: friends, humor, jail

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#22

“Groucho: You know I think you're the most beautiful woman in the world?
Woman: Really?
Groucho: No, but I don't mind lying if it gets me somewhere.”
― Groucho Marx

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“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain

tags: austen, criticism, reading, writing

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#24

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

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#25

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#26

“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”
― Mel Brooks

tags: bullshit, humor, profanity, shit, vulgarity

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#27

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
― Mel Brooks

tags: comedy, humor, tragedy

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#28

“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.”
― Mel Brooks

tags: life-lessons, mistakes

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#29

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#30

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
― Peter De Vries

tags: humor, writing

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