Martin Bakner

“Very little social networking goes on. The majority of people just complain about things. Or complain about people complaining about things. Or complain about people complaining about the complainer and how the complainer is oppressing the original complainer's right to complain about things. And share pictures of cats in people clothes.”
― Dave Turner, How To Be Dead #1-3

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“May I just point out,” said Stella, who was unfortunately a lawyer, “that the First Amendment does not protect you from hearing things you don’t want to hear. The First Amendment guarantees your safety against persecution by the government—”
― Olivie Blake, All Manner of Thing Shall Be

“Life isn't about being brave. It's about getting through it even though you're scared,”
― Dave Turner, How To Be Dead #1-3