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  • #1
    Iris Murdoch
    “Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
    Iris Murdoch

  • #2
    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #3
    Charles Bukowski
    “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #4
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #5
    Charles Bukowski
    “Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #6
    Charles Bukowski
    “my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
    Charles Bukowski, Women

  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “Life's as kind as you let it be.”
    Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

  • #9
    J.M. Barrie
    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #10
    William S. Burroughs
    “we are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of true romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. i do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. this is what makes your self-respect so important, and i don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness”
    William S. Burroughs

  • #11
    Charles Bukowski
    “it was like any other
    relationship, there was
    jealousy on both sides,
    there were split-ups and
    reconciliations.
    there were also fragmented moments of
    great peace and beauty.

    I often tried to get away from her and
    she tied to get away from me
    but it was difficult:
    Cupid, in his strange way, was really
    there.”
    Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

  • #12
    Zadie Smith
    “It's a funny thing about the modern world. You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, "Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He didn't love me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me." Now, how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll---then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”
    Zadie Smith, White Teeth

  • #13
    Shel Silverstein
    “There are no happy endings.
    Endings are the saddest part,
    So just give me a happy middle
    And a very happy start.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #14
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
    Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich

  • #17
    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    Howard Zinn

  • #18
    John Lennon
    “War is over ... If you want it.”
    John Lennon

  • #19
    Shel Silverstein
    “When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?”
    Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

  • #20
    Shel Silverstein
    “why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid.
    Why try to make me like you?
    Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle?
    Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle?
    Why do you scream when I do what I did?
    Im a kid.”
    Shel Silverstein, Falling Up

  • #21
    Lauren Oliver
    “I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #22
    Nick Cave
    “But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals
    Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .”
    Nick Cave

  • #23
    Margaret Atwood
    “I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman

  • #24
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #25
    Shel Silverstein
    “Draw a crazy picture,
    Write a nutty poem,
    Sing a mumble-gumble song,
    Whistle through your comb.
    Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #26
    Shel Silverstein
    “Tell my I'm clever,
    Tell me I'm kind,
    Tell me I'm talented,
    Tell me I'm cute,
    Tell me I'm sensitive,
    Graceful and Wise
    Tell me I'm perfect--
    But tell me the TRUTH.”
    Shel Silverstein, Falling Up

  • #27
    Tennessee Williams
    “I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”
    Tennessee Williams

  • #28
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

  • #29
    Ned Vizzini
    “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

  • #30
    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair



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