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“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
― Huxley Aldous

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.”
― Eddie Izzard

“Cake or death?”
― Eddie Izzard

“Have you got a flag?”
― Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill

“I'm covered in bees!”
― Eddie Izzard

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I’m kidding. But killing helps.”
― Douglas Coupland, JPod

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.”
― Max DePree

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”
― mary renault, Fire from Heaven

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.”
― Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.”
― Steven Wright

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat.”
― Sun Tsu