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“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
― Henry Rollins

“Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved.”
― Fazil Iskander

“The moon will never lie to anyone. Be like the moon. No one hates the moon or wants to kill it. The moon does not take antidepressants and never gets sent to prison. The moon never shot a guy in the face and ran away. The moon has been around a long time and has never tried to rip anyone off. The moon does not care who you want to touch or what color you are. The moon treats everyone the same. The moon never tries to get in on the guest list or use your name to impress others. Be like the moon. When others insult or belittle in an attempt to elevate themselves, the moon sits passively and watches, never lowering itself to anything that weak. The moon is beautiful and bright. It needs no makeup to look beautiful. The moon never shoves clouds out of its way so it can be seen. The moon needs not fame or money to be powerful. The moon never asks you to go to war to defend it. Be like the moon.”
― Henry Rollins, Solipsist

“Три вещи может сделать женщина для русского писателя. Она может кормить его. Она может искренне поверить в его гениальность. И наконец, женщина может оставить его в покое. Кстати, третье не исключает второго и первого.”
― Сергей Довлатов, The Suitcase

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Эпиграф имеет целью убедить читателя, что автор не только пишет, но порой ещё и читает, причём умные вещи, из которых и берёт эпиграфы.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski

“I like Russian trains. Not for comfort, of which there is none, nor speed, of which there is barely any to be spoken about, particularly when you relate it to the size of the country that must be crossed. Not even, particularly, for the view, which is inevitably repetitive, as Mother Nature decrees that her works of wonder can only occur so frequently across such a vast and cultivated space. I like Russian trains, or at least those I travelled on in the early spring of 1956, so many centuries after I gunned Lisle down in cold blood; I like the trains for the sense of unity that all these hardships create in its passengers. I suspect the experience is relative.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“Ting-a-ling mother fucker.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“There is a basic rule about tanks, and you should know it: The only man who ever beat a tank was John Wayne. And he was in another tank.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons

“Then again, I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“science never cheered up anyone. the human situation is just too awful.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“Artists,” he said, “are people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage. But by golly, I can make this square of canvas, or this eight-and-a-half-by-eleven piece of paper, or this lump of clay, or these twelve bars of music, exactly what they ought to be!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“The driver asked me if I would mind another brief detour, this time to a tombstone salesroom across the street from the cemetery.
I wasn't a Bokononist then, so I agreed with some peevishness. As a Bokononist, of course, I would have agreed gaily to go anywhere anyone suggested. As Bokonon says: 'Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“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

“Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five