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“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!”
― Woody Allen

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

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

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
― Frank Zappa

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
― John Waters

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
― Frank Sinatra

“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
― Paul Newman

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

“It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Irina Dunn

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so.”
― John Donne, The Complete English Poems

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Mind the gap!”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
― Peter Shaffer

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”
― John Waters, Role Models

“Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.”
― His Holiness the Dalai Lama

“Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our
society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with the
roots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. We
need to embrace 'inner disarmament,' reducing our own emotions of
suspicion, hatred and hostility toward our brothers and sisters.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi