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Happy Camping Quotes

Quotes tagged as "happy-camping" Showing 1-21 of 21
Robert Walser
“make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.”
Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

Donald Barthelme
“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”
Donald Barthelme, The King

Péter Nádas
“if one could learn the most important things in life, one would still have to learn how to keep quiet about them.”
Péter Nádas, A Book of Memories

Fredric Brown
“people are complicated; you can't label 'em with a word.”
Fredric Brown

John Barth
“the enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself”
John Barth, The Floating Opera

B. Traven
“don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.”
B. Traven, The Death Ship

B. Traven
“it would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.”
B. Traven, The Death Ship

Fernando Pessoa
“a reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Charles Willeford
“a man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance.”
Charles Willeford, The Machine in Ward Eleven

Johnny Shaw
“i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit.”
Johnny Shaw, Big Maria

Harper Lee
“It's grown people who always believe the worst”
Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

William Carlos Williams
“they are mystified by certain instances.”
William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems

Jim Dodge
“most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.”
Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

Padgett Powell
“try to recall the person you thought you were and the moment you began to realize you are not that person, and try to grasp and appreciate the high quality of lunacy required for you to have ever thought you were that person.”
Padgett Powell, The Imperative Mood

Péter Nádas
“we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.”
Péter Nádas, A Book of Memories

Péter Nádas
“...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all.”
Péter Nádas, A Book of Memories

Mark Leyner
“fate is the ultimate preexisting condition.”
Mark Leyner, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack

Donald Barthelme
“mead for my men!”
Donald Barthelme, The King

B. Traven
“i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.”
B. Traven, The Death Ship

“there's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. they never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences.”
C.J. Box, Breaking Point

“if you are too unusual, you may turn into a collector's item.”
John D MacDonald