| The trouble
ain't there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed
right. |
Mark Twain
|
| His mother
should have thrown him away and kept the stork. |
Mae West |
| I
never forget a face, but in your case, I'll make an exception. |
Groucho Marx |
Some cause
happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.
|
Oscar Wilde |
| If your
brains were dynamite, there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off. |
Kurt
Vonnegut Jr. |
Some of my
best leading men have been dogs and horses.
|
Elizabeth Taylor |
Only two
things are infinite-- the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so
sure about the former.
|
Albert Einstein |
I like your
opera. I think I will set it to music.
|
Beethoven |
We were
trying to get pregnant, but I forgot one of us had to have a penis.
|
Roseanne Barr |
My opponent is a glob of
snot.
|
Kierkegaard |
We were happily married
for eight months. Unfortunately, the marriage lasted four and a half
years.
|
Nick Faldo |
When asked How many people
work in the Vatican? About half.
|
Pope John Paul XXIII |
If you won't be a good
example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning.
|
Catherine The
Great |
They don't hardly make 'em
like him anymore, but I think he should be castrated anyway.
|
Hunter S.
Thompson |
The thing that impresses
me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
|
King
Edward VIII |
Sarah Palin met with world
leaders to discuss her foreign policy expertise. The meeting lasted 90
seconds.
|
Conan O'Brien |
Americans will always try
to do the right thing-- after they've tried everything else.
|
Winston
Churchill |
What do you think of
Western Civilization?
I think it would be a good idea.
|
Mahatma Gandhi |
You can lead a man to
Congress, but you can't make him think.
|
Milton Berle |
| He has Van
Gogh's ear for music. |
Billy Wilder |
| Women who
want to be equal with men lack ambition. |
Timothy Leary |
| Ronnie Reagan doesn't dye his hair--he's just
permanently orange. |
Gerald Ford |
Thinking is
the most unhealthy disease in the world, and
people die of it just as they die of any disease. Luckily, in England
at any rate, thought is not catching.
|
Oscar Wilde |
| Before Elvis,
there was nothing. |
John Lennon |
| The
tautness of his face sours ripe grapes. |
William Shakespeare |
| If you
want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. |
Margaret Thatcher |
If they can
make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something
out of you.
|
Muhammad Ali |
| I always
wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more
specific! |
Lily Tomlin |
In my many
years I have come to a conclusion that one
useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a
congress.
|
John Adams |
He may look
like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you-- he
really is an idiot.
|
Groucho Marx |
| A politician
is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man |
EE Cummings |
Whatever women must do,
they must do twice as well
as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
|
Charlotte Whitton |
For the immense power of stupidity, reason must yield.
|
Jos Van Alsenoy |
Are you
always so stupid or is today a special occasion?
|
NN
|
| Light travels faster than sound. This is why some
people
appear bright until they speak. |
Steven
Wright |
When people
ask me stupid questions, it is my legal obligation to give a sarcastic
remark.
|
NN
|
| It’s okay
if you don’t like me. Not everyone has good taste. |
NN
|
| Everyone
seems normal until you get to know them. |
NN
|
| Always
remember that you’re unique. Just like everyone else. |
NN
|
| Everyone
has the right to be stupid, but you are abusing the privilege. |
NN
|
| If at
first, you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you. |
NN
|
| My
imaginary friend says that you need a therapist. |
NN
|
| Don’t worry
about what people think. They don’t do it very often. |
NN
|
| Life’s
good, you should get one. |
NN
|
Ugliness
can be fixed, stupidity is forever.
In other words: Turpitudo
figi
potest, stultitia semper est.
|
NN
|
| Zombies eat
brains. You’re safe. |
NN
|
| Keep
rolling your eyes. Maybe you’ll find a brain back there. |
NN
|
| I’d agree
with you but then we’d both be wrong. |
NN
|
| In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of
sheep
one must, above all, be a sheep. |
Albert
Einstein |
| Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might
as well
be happy. |
Cynthia
Nelms |
| An optimist thinks that this is the best possible
world.
A pessimist fears that this is true. |
Robert
Oppenheimer |
| One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts
of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly
understand. |
Kurt
Vonnegut |
| I’ve got a
good heart, but this mouth… |
NN
|
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of
the hands
of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
|
Frank Lloyd
Wright |
| One of the hardest things to imagine is that you are
not
smarter than average. |
Jonathan
Fuerbringer |
| You sound
better with your mouth closed. |
NN
|
We might be
dead tomorrow and it was pointless looking into the future and being
miserable in the present.
|
Lucinda Riley |
| Time has
fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. |
Alexander Smith - Essays
written in the Country - 1863 |
The man who
in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not
likely to lose it in any other.
|
Alexander Smith - Essays written in
the Country - 1863 |
Sometimes we want to make laws even clearer so that
even semi-literate
psychopaths have a chance at understanding them.
|
George Conway as a
comment on a Trump statement |
Once you're
already off the cliff, you might as well pretend you're
flying.
|
Roxanne Longstreet Conrad, aka Rachel Caine - Thin Air |
How dare you destroy the
bridge after crossing the river.
|
Anchee Min - Pearl of China |
Sunrise always comes, no
matter how dark the night.
|
Roxanne Longstreet Conrad,
aka Rachel Caine - Gale Force |
It takes a special kind of
courage to know your own darkness.
|
Roxanne Longstreet Conrad,
aka Rachel Caine - Cape Storm |
You really can get used to
just about anything, especially if you don't
have alternatives.
|
Roxanne Longstreet Conrad,
aka Rachel Caine - Cape
Storm |
People who wonder if the
glass is half empty or half full, miss the point. The glass is
refillable.
|
NN
|
The most interesting
things happened in doorways, at the borders, right
along the edges.
|
Robert Langdon/Tom Hanks
in the movie Inferno |
Death is what gives life
meaning. To know your days are numbered, your time is short.
|
The Ancient One in the
movie Dr. Strange
|
Don't think of it as a
disability, think of it as a different ability.
|
NN
|
When the earth cracks the fools come up.
|
Afghan proverb |
Pain is only weakness
leaving the body.
|
Kung Fu Panda
|
A dirty mind is a joy
forever.
|
me
|
Beauty, just like contact
lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
|
|
Alexander Leek:
If there was a car crash ten blocks away, that window washer up there
could probably see it. Now, that doesn't mean he's God, or even smarter
than we are. But from where he's sitting, he can see a little further
down the road.
|
From the movie The
Mothman Prophecies.
|
John Klein:
I think we can assume that these entities are more advanced than us.
Why don't they just come right out and tell us what's on their minds?
Alexander Leek:
You're more advanced than a cockroach, have you ever tried explaining
yourself to one of them?
|
From the movie The
Mothman Prophecies. |
John Klein:
What do you look like?
Indrid Cold:
It depends on who is looking.
|
From the movie The
Mothman Prophecies. |
Without a sense of
expectation, there can be no paradise.
|
Foucault's pendulum -
Umberto Eco |
The relationship between husband and wife is
psychological. One is psycho and the other one is logical and I don't
know who's who.
|
???
|
Upstairs, a door softly clicks shut. Then I
listen in the darkness for the familiar sounds, knowing everything has
changed.
|
Gail Tsukiyama - Dreaming water
|
Some people have problems and some people make up
problems...this person is the problem.
|
John J on Yahoo.com |
Outside of a dog, a book
is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
|
Groucho Marx
|
How can you rule a small country that produces over
1600 different kind of beers?
|
Me, reflecting on Belgium and its government.
|
One in twenty people has
been a victim of crime.
Which means that 19 out of 20 people are criminals.
|
Philomena Cunk, BBC, about crime in the UK
|
In the end he loses his
horse and ends up wandering round a car park looking for it where he
eventually dies.
Because in those days you couldn't find your horse just by beeping its
keys and making its ass light up.
|
Philomena Cunk, BBC, about king Richard III
|
If there is no one to
hold
your hand, then put your hands in your pocket and just keep on walking.
|
Karma
|
It is only with one's
heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the
eye.
|
The Fox in "The little
prince" van Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
|
Sin is only that which is
hurtful, and if the profit is greater than the damage, it becomes a
virtue.
|
Adam Weishaupt
|
Shadows need light to
live. They die in darkness.
|
Kathleen
O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear in "The betrayal" |
Especially unsettling for
intellectuals was the sight of men of different nations all praying to
the same god for victory, and patriots arguing that justice itself was
on their side.
|
Eugene Kelly in "The
basics of western philosophy"
|
Large numbers of strangers
can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths.
|
Yuval Noah Harari in
"Sapiens"
|
The nationalist virus
presented itself as being beneficial for humans, yet it has been
beneficial mainly to itself.
|
Yuval Noah Harari in
"Sapiens" |
If
we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that
in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a
few thousand Christians. In contrast, over the course of the next 1500
years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend
slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and
compassion.
|
Yuval Noah Harari in
"Sapiens" |
Ultimately,
saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to
hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech
because you have nothing to say.
|
Edward Snowden in
"Permanent record"
|
If you're right 90 percent
of the time, why quibble over the remaining three percent?
|
"Rap Master Ronnie" in the
off-Broadway show
|
And all of this is being reported by indifferent,
insecure,
ignorant and incompetent journalists whose only goal is to fill time,
gain ratings and pretend they know what they're doing.
That's how screwed we are.
|
Brian Karem on "Trump, Biden and the future"
|
Do not complain, do not explain. (and not "Dieu et mon droit")
|
Motto van queen Elizabeth, nu overgenomen door King
Charles.
|
You can't produce a baby in 1 month by getting nine
women pregnant.
|
Warren Buffet
|
But you cannot kiss an idea... cannot touch it or hold
it.
Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love.
|
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
|
A Japanese diplomat commented with weary irony that his
people had been sending artistic treasures to Europe for some time, and
had been regarded as barbarians; but, as soon as they showed themselves
able to shoot down Russians with quick-firing guns, they were acclaimed
as a highly civilized race.
|
Madame Sadayakko, the geisha who seduced the West -
Lesley Downer |
After sternly calculating these possibilities
(admitting that life was short, art long, opportunity instantaneous and
experiment uncertain), he told himself that it was unworthy of a
gentleman to be daunted by such petty calculations (...)
|
Umberto Eco - The island of the day before |
He [C.F. Gauss] rubbed his eyes. How had he grown so
old? One didn't feel right any more, one didn't see right any more, and
one thought at a snail's pace. Aging wasn't a tragedy.
It was a farce.
|
Daniel Kehlmann - Measuring the world |
What, ladies and gentlemen, is death? Fundamentally it
is not extinction and those seconds when life ends, but the slow
decline that precedes it, that creeping debility that extends over
years: the time in which a person is still there and yet not there, in
which he can imagine that although his prime is long since past, it
lingers yet. So circumspectly, ladies and gentlemen, has nature
organized our death!
|
Daniel Kehlmann - Measuring the world |
My memory is proglottidean, like the tapeworm, but
unlike the tapeworm it has no head, it wanders in a maze, and any point
may be the beginning or the end of its journey.
|
Umberto Eco - The mysterious flame of queen Loana. |
Freedom is a beautiful thing between one man and
another; you don't have the right to make me do and think what you want
me to.
|
Umberto Eco - The mysterious flame of queen Loana. |
Paola told me I never went to soccer matches, at most I
would have watched finals of the World Cup on television. I must have
had it in my head, from that day on, that going to a match meant losing
my soul.
|
Umberto Eco - The mysterious flame of queen Loana. |
I tried to conjure Ali's frozen face, to really see his
tranquil eyes, but time can be a greedy thing -- sometimes it steals
all the details for itself.
|
Khaled Hosseini - The kite runner |
But like the poet says: "How seamless seemed love and
then came trouble!"
|
Khaled Hosseini - The kite runner |
But I hope you will heed this: A man who has no
conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
|
Khaled Hosseini - The kite runner |
Many observers of Japan have noticed as a national
characteristic
the ability to press for one course of action, be frustrated, and then
prosecute the reverse course with equal fervor.
|
Robert Harvey - American shogun |
Twitter (now X) is a platform where people who don’t
read books lecture people who write them.
|
Michael Weiss (journalist) |
Some people came into the world and never once looked
up to see the lives around them--they were so focused on what they
needed. No one else mattered to them. They disconnected from sympathy
and pity and guilt. Some people came into the world as monster. I
understood that now.
|
Alexandra Bracken - In the afterlight |
| The thing is...what they don't tell you about
forgiveness is this--you
don't give it for the other person's sake, but for your own. |
Alexandra Bracken - In the afterlight |
Half the world is composed of people who have something
to say and
can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
|
Robert Frost |
Whenever politicians start talking in mystical terms,
beware. They
might be trying to disguise and excuse real suffering by wrapping it up
in big incomprehensible words. Be particularly careful about the
following four words: sacrifice, eternity, purity, redemption. If you
hear any of these, sound the alarm. And if you happen to live in a
country whose leader routinely says things like 'Their sacrifice will
redeem the purity of our eternal nation' -- know that you are in deep
trouble.
|
Yuval Noah Harari - 21 lessons for the 21st century.
|
Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for
you than answers you cannot question.
|
Yuval Noah Harari - 21 lessons for the 21st century. |
In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.
|
Bertolt Brecht
|
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite
wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
|
Bertolt Brecht - Life of Galileo
|
She walks unseen through the world.
Cares for our children, cleans our homes.
Her voice unheard.
Will you listen to her story?
|
Christy Lefteri - Songbirds
|
His eyes seemed to see nothing. He was a man whose soul
had died and whose body was waiting to be reunited with it.
|
Heather Morris - The tattooist of Auschwitz.
|
Let the beast go !
|
Jean-Luc in the US
|
It is hard to plan for what comes next when what comes
next is not something you planned for.
|
Rick Yancey - The 5th wave |
The first kill would be the hardest, but the next would
be easier, and the one after still easier, because it's true: Even the
most sensitive person can get used to even the most unsensitive thing.
Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
|
Rick Yancey - The 5th wave |
... there's more than one kind of bullshit. There's
bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know
you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really
don't.
|
Rick Yancey - The 5th wave |
Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true,
I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.
|
Rick Yancey - The 5th wave |
... I thought the only way to hold on was to find
something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something
you're willing to die for.
|
Rick Yancey - The 5th wave |
... you have walked into the darkness without a candle
before, and at the end of your journey found a light.
|
Harry Wittaker / Lucinda Riley - Atlas, the story of Pa
Salt.
|
Love
may be nothing more than a complex interaction of hormones, conditioned
behavior, and positive reinforcement, but try writing a poem or song
about that.
|
Rick Yancey - The last star |
Smoking is good for the environment because it kills
human beings.
|
?
|
Shivering, frozen mid the frosty snow in biting,
stinging winds;
running to and fro to stamp one's icy feet, teeth chattering in the
bitter chill.
|
Antoino Vivaldi - Winter – Concerto in f-minor -
Allegro non molto
|
The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and
separate
matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not
under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually
control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable
externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own.
|
Epictetus, Discourses 2.5.4–5 |
It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there
ought to be
a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one
usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at
6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit,
piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where
essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to
be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
|
Charles Bukowski - Factotum |
No matter how hard life is, you always have your own
way to shine. While there is life, there is hope.
|
林果儿 (Lin Guoer) Restoration and Renovation expert
|
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be
a revolutionary act.
|
George Orwell |
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
|
Aldous Huxley |
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it
is no longer art.
|
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
|
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
|
Albert Camus
|
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be
good.
|
John Steinbeck
|
There's a crack in everything, that's how the light
gets in.
|
L. Cohen
|
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who
created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you.
Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
|
George Carlin |
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully
human. At best
he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not
make messes in the house.
|
Robert Heinlein - in Time Enough for Love
|
In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your
questions so that I can respond "no comment" with some degree of
knowledge.
|
William Baker - CIA spokesman, to the press
|
"They [La Prensa] accused us of suppressing freedom of
expression. This was a lie and we could not let them publish it."
|
Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of
Censorship, 1984, on freedom of speech
|
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice
letter saying I approved of it.
|
Mark Twain |
He is a self-made
man and worships his creator.
|
John Bright |
Before we work on
artificial intelligence, why don't we do something about natural
stupidity?
|
???
|
The beauty of a woman is
not in the clothes she wears, her face or the way she fixes her hair.
The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because it is the open door
in her heart, the source of her love.
The beauty of a woman develops with age.
|
Audrey Hepburn
|
With
time, we gain weight because we accumulate so much information and
wisdom in our heads that when there is no more room, it distributes out
to the rest of our bodies. So we aren’t heavy, we are enormously
cultured, educated, and happy.
|
One rightfully upset woman who counters the hype that
being slim is the ideal for women.
|
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
and nodding by the fire, take down this book,
and slowly read, and dream of the soft look
your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
and loved your beauty with love false or true,
but one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
and loved the sorrows of your changing face;
and bending down beside the glowing bars,
murmur, a little sadly, how love
fled
and paced upon the mountains overhead
and hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
|
William Butler Yeats - When You Are Old |
Pay no attention to what the critics say. No statue has
ever been put up to a critic.
|
Jean Sibelius
|
Once you hit a certain age, you become permantly
unimpressed by a lot of shit.
|
??? (Norman Freeman ?)
|
When asked how fascism starts: "First they fascinate
the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent."
|
Bertrand Russell |
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down
to their level and then beat you with experience.
|
Mark Twain
|
We live in a time where intelligent people are being
silenced so that stupid people won't be offended.
|
???
|
The
worst offenders are the others, the mainstream politicians. The
established parties that keep their promises for about as long as it
takes to draft a new one.
|
Karin Smirnoff - The girl in the eagles talons.
|
You can never change the path of fate, only choose
which side to walk on.
|
Karin Smirnoff - The girl in the eagles talons. |
The coolest people I've ever met have the most colorful
pasts.
They've lived lives of risk, made bad choices, learned lessons,
explored, and they're not afraid of being real.
|
???
|
Children must be taught how to think, not what to
think.
|
Margaret Mead |
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to
produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the
herd.
|
Bertrand Russell |
The general population doesn't know what's happening,
and it even doesn't know that it doesn't know.
|
Noam Chomsky |
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial
government you can be free inside.
|
George Orwell
|
It's weird being the same age as old people.
|
???
|
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what
isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
|
Søren Kierkegaard |
People generally see what they look for and hear what
they listen for.
|
Harper Lee - To kill a mockingbird
|
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the
insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
|
Aldous Huxley |
Compulsive liars shouldn't frighten you. They can harm
no one if no one is listening to them.
Compulsive beievers on the other hand, they should terrify you.
Believers are the liars' enablers.
|
Nick Cohen
|
What people say about me is none of my business.
I am who I am and do what I do.
I expect nothing and accept everything.
And that makes life easier.--
We live in a world where funerals are more important than the deceased,
marriage is more important than love, looks are more important than the
soul.
We live in a packaging culture that despises content.
|
Anthony Hopkins |
The truth does not require your participation to exist.
Bullshit does.
|
Terence McKenna |
This
constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at
ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no
longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between
right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and
judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the
rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want.
|
Hannah Arendt - The origins of totalitarianism
|
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that's why life is hard.
|
Jeremy Goldberg |
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt
those who are
doing it.
|
Georges Bernard Shaw |
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think
I have ended up
where I needed to be
|
Leonard Cohen |
May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if
this is not your
lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.
|
Leonard Cohen
|
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts,
her pockets full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before,
a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me,
the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom.
By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.
|
Mary Oliver - Sleeping in the Forest |
Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of
happiness.
|
Leo Tolstoy |
I think some things are better left unsaid...
and I usually think that right after I said it.
|
|
I’m slowing down the tune
I never liked it fast
You want to get there soon
I want to get there last
|
Leonard Cohen
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People. People. Endless noise.
And I'm so tired. And I would like to sleep under trees; red ones, blue
ones, swirling passionate ones.
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Fyodor Dostoevski |
Smartphones are in fact portals to darkness.
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Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should
have the right
to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because
his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
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Blaise Pascal |
For the heart with no companion
For the soul without a king
For the prima ballerina
Who cannot dance to anything
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Leonard Cohen
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they tell me "it all happens for a reason"
and I gently cover the ears of the child within me
then whisper to her
"you did not deserve this
and this is not your fault"
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Inside me there are two wolves: one who wants to buy
books purely for
the dopamine rush, and one who wants to buy books to read. And
unfortunately they're both authorized to use my credit card.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by
the wise as
false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Seneca ?
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Cows kill more people than sharks.
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I'm surprised cows kill any sharks at all.
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I came, I saw, I forgot what I was doing, retraced my
steps, got lost
on the way back
and now I have to pee.
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Good night.
May the stars light the way to where your dreams may be found, awaiting
your arrival
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Anthony T. Hinks |
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself,
because I could find
no language to describe them in.
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Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
Anyone who has the power to make you believe
absurdities has the power
to make you commit injustices.
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Voltaire |
Of course, anyone who truly loves books buys more of
them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime.
A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic
potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.
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David Quammen |
About the above quote, I must admit that my unopened
books do not rest in a slot on a shelf, but on the floor of the space I
like to call my office, which in fact is a rumble of collectibles that
for some reason, unbeknownst even to me, does not get organized.
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me
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You won't burn in hell.
But be nice anyway.
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Ricky Gervais
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Listen up folks. When your partner is venting about a
problem, it is so, so, important to actually stop and ask what is
needed: advice, comfort, a back rub, a new kitty, an all expenses paid
trip to the bookstore or a solemn oath of vengance.
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It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they
could bear to live with.
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Anais Nin
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Two traps you need to avoid:
1) Caring about what they think
2) Thinking they care
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"Look at me Mariam."
Reluctantly Mariam did.
Nana said, "Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a
compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds
a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam."
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Khaled Hosseini - A thousand splendid suns |
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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Ashley Montagu |
No one leaves here alive. So please stop treating
yourself as an afterthought. Eat delicious food. Walk in the sun. Jump
into the sea. Speak the truth that you carry in your heart like a
hidden treasure. Be silly. Be good. Be weird. There is no time for
anything else.
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Anthony Hopkins |
The true horror of existence is not the fear of death,
but the fear of life. It is the fear of waking up each day to face the
same struggles, the same disappointments, the same pain. It is the fear
that nothing will ever change, that you are trapped in a cycle of
suffering that you cannot escape. And in that fear, there is a
desperation, a longing for something, anything, to break the monotony,
to bring meaning to the endless repetition of days.
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Albert Camus |
Let us agree that Alexander be called a god, if he
wishes so.
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Damis of Sparta - 324 BC as quoted by Plutarch
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I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary
reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your
hair stand on end: C-students from
Yale.
He continues for clarification: George W. Bush has gathered
around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography,
plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most
frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PP's, the medical term
for smart, personable people who have no consciences.
And yet more clarification: To say somebody is a PP is to make a
perfectly respectable diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis
or athlete's foot. The classical medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey
Cleckley, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of
Georgia, and published in 1941. Read it !
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A man without a country - Kurt Vonnegut in 2005
Just change the name in 2025.
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Las mejores personas están mal de la cabeza y bien del
corazon. (The best people are sick in the head and good in the heart.)
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zou Frida Kahlo gezegd hebben
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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.
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Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Wisdom has been chasing you, but you have always been
faster.
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We only live once.
Wrong! We only die once.
We live every day!
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Peanuts
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We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the
impossible
for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little,
we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
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Konstantin Josef Jireček (presumably)
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If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in a bad
company.
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Jean-Paul Sartre |
An interesting question: If all countries are in debt,
who are we in debt to?
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Be careful when you follow the masses, sometimes the
"m" is silent.
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Beauty, just like contact lenses, is in the eye of the
beholder.
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Pain is only weakness leaving the body
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Kung Fu Panda
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A dirty mind is a joy forever.
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Her body tensed and quivered as she felt wave after
wave surge through it.
I probably should have told her about the new electric fence.
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me: I have short term memory loss,
he: What's it like?
me: What's what like?
he: Short term memory loss.
me: Omg, I have that too!
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the daily conversation
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You think you're an introvert because you like being
alone,
but in reality you just love being at peace
and you're actually extrovert around people who bring you peace.
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sounds valid to me
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It's OK to talk to yourself. And OK to answer yourself.
But it's sad when you have to repeat what you said because you weren't
listening.
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I get the picture
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Economics explained:
Q: How does "trickle down" work again?
A: First, the top 1% gets all the money.
Q: And then what?
A: That's it.
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Yep, that's about it.
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When I'm reading a book, or most anything for that
matter, I will
have read a page, but after I get to the bottom of that page I will
realize that I was thinking of something else and didn't really read
the page even though I was reading. So I read it again. I read a few
sentences and by the time I get to the bottom of the page... same
fucking thing. I read it again, concentrating this time. I get
distracted by the fact that I am concentrating and, by this point, I
have actually read and absorbed maybe half of the page.
OK, it's not always that bad, but this happens often with interesting
texts, where I constantly get distracted by new ideas that pop up in my
mind while reading the text and my mind starts to drift of, my eyes
reading the words of the text but my mind processing the new idea. This
can be exhausting. But often very interesting because of the new
insights I gain but that have little or nothing to do with the text I'm
reading.
I guess it's labeled as ADD.
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me, about myself
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会うは別れの始め = Au-wa Wakare-no Hajime = To meet is the
beginning of parting.
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Japanese proverb
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Qu'est-ce que ça peut me foutre. Je m'en fiche. Les
choses sont ce qu'ils sont.
( What do I care? I don't. Things are what they are.)
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me
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I was poor when I was young,
but after years of hard work,
I'm no longer young.
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Take that!
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Le confort des riches
dépend d'un approvisionnement abondant des pauvres.
(The comfort of the rich depends on the abundant supply
of the poor.)
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Voltaire
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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
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so, be wise
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INFJ's are simple people with complicated minds. Not
impressed by diamonds, glamor, privileges and trends.
All they seek is truth, intellectual company, hope, humanity, nature,
silence and solitude.
(INFJ is a personality type with introverted,
intuitive, feeling, and judging traits.)
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feeling attracted
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What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
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???
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Having a brain can cause brain cancer.
Thank god you're safe.
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???
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When they say: "god is
testing your faith",
then, obviously, an omniscient being needs to test you,
even though he already knows the outcome.
That is the power of indoctrination.
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???
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When the nazis burned Sigmund Freud's books, he remarked,
"What progress we are making. In the middle ages they would have burned
me. Now they are content with burning my books."
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Waiting now for the republicans in the US to start burning
books. Or perhaps they'll revert to burning people instead?
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The word of the day is "fucktose intolerant". It is the
condition of being completely unable to tolerate other people's
bullshit.
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I hate it when people act all intellectual and talk about Mozart when they've never even seen one of his paintings.
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I was dead for billions of years before I was born and never suffered the smallest inconvenience.
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Mark Twain ?
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On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century
1984
A Handmaids Tale
Diary of Anne Frank
Parable of The Sower
Fahrenheit 451
Animal Farm
Brave New World
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These books are warnings, not instruction manuals.
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