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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    “Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.”
    James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending

  • #3
    James Rollins
    “Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!”
    James Rollins, Black Order

  • #4
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #5
    Nora Ephron
    “I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #7
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    Daniel Pennac

  • #8
    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    George Carlin

  • #9
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #10
    Jess C. Scott
    “Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
    Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life

  • #11
    Blaise Pascal
    “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
    Blaise Pascal, Pensées

  • #12
    Martha Stout
    “I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”
    Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

  • #13
    “I'm an 'intelligent' sociopath. I don't have problems with drugs, I don't commit crimes, I don't take pleasure in hurting people, and I don't typically have relationship problems. I do have a complete lack of empathy. But I consider that an advantage, most of the time. Do I know the difference between right and wrong, and do I want to be good? Sure. ... A peaceful and orderly world is a more comfortable world for me to live in. So do I avoid breaking the law because it's 'right'? No, I avoid breaking the law because it makes sense.”
    M. E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

  • #14
    “When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.”
    M.E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

  • #15
    Martha Stout
    “In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.”
    Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

  • #16
    M.K. Clinton
    “I always say, the time you spend with your dog makes the difference in a great dog or a crate dog.”
    M.K. Clinton, The Returns
    tags: dogs

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #19
    Homer
    “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
    Homer, The Iliad

  • #20
    Homer
    “…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
    Homer, The Iliad

  • #21
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #22
    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #23
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

  • #24
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #25
    Cassandra Clare
    “I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #26
    “Vampires have credit cards?"
    "We're undead, not Amish.”
    Jennifer Colgan, Uncross My Heart

  • #27
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #28
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #30
    Veronica Roth
    “Lies require commitment.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent



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