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

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
― Frank Zappa

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”
― Frank Zappa

“Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?”
― Frank Zappa

“The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.”
― Frank Zappa

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

“The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.”
― Frank Zappa

“There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.”
― Frank Zappa

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

“If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.”
― Frank Zappa

“Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white”
― frank zappa

“Her breath was warm on his cheek, smelling of fried egg.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Hand of Devils

“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”
― Kurt Cobain

“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”
― Frank Zappa

“Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
― Frank Zappa

“I have spent less time thinking about my husband than thinking about lunch.”
― Lionel Shriver, Big Brother

“In the end nothing triumphs here for me but several above-average singers saying the words "go your own way" together in a way I infer must be emotionally engaging for some hypothetical third party. Weird that in music, that's sometimes all you need.”
― Scott Miller, Music: What Happened?

“It matters which side we choose. Even if there will never be more light than darkness. Even if there can be no more joy in the galaxy than there is pain. For every action we undertake, for every word we speak, for every life we touch—it matters. I don’t turn toward the light because it means someday I’ll ‘win’ some sort of cosmic game. I turn toward it because it is the light.”
― Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice

“...And partly because I wanted to give them a chance to be… better. Bigger of spirit. That rescue suggests they have it in them.” “People are more than their worst act,” Obi-Wan recited. It was something Qui-Gon had said to him many times, which at last seemed to be sinking in.”
― Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice

“​She dog ears her current page and I cringe. “What?” ​“That’s not a very nice way to treat your book.” ​She scoffs, “It’s a book, Finn. It’s meant to be enjoyed until it falls apart.”
― D.L. Howe, The Exchange

“Although Christmas Eve wasn’t until the following day, all of Jack’s sisters and at most of the husbands if not all the kids were there to meet them.”
― Robyn Carr, Shelter Mountain

“When Miley came downstairs, she looked April up and down.”
― Sarah Swan, April's Fool

“What can I say? I have the wrong pole of a magnetic personality.”
― Sorcha Black, Crushing Clover

“First rule: you do not talk about Fight Club.”
― Linda Keir, The Swing of Things