March 2013
2 posts
February 2013
1 post
W: I hate people. Do you hate people?
H: No... but I sure feel better when they're not around.
January 2013
1 post
The appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
– Phillip K. Dick
December 2012
1 post
When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s...
– Charles de Lint
November 2012
2 posts
4 tags
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
– Henry David Thoreau
That government is best which governs not at all.
– Henry David Thoreau
June 2012
6 posts
Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven
– John Milton
3 tags
From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death.
– Haruki Murakami.
Stuff your eyes with wonder … live as if you’d drop dead in ten...
– Ray Bradbury
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People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better...
– Ray Bradbury
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
– Ray Bradbury
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I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows...
– Haruki Murakami
May 2012
3 posts
3 tags
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
– Haruki Murakami.
Anonymous asked: Why we are people?
April 2012
14 posts
4 tags
War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play...
– Ernest Hemingway
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Then there is the other secret. There isn’t any symbolysm [sic]. The sea...
– Ernest Hemingway
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big...
– Ernest Hemingway
The funniest things are the forbidden.
– Mark Twain
Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the...
– Ezra Pound
You see it’s awfully hard to talk or write about your own stuff because if...
– Ernest Hemingway
Modern life is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical...
– Ernest Hemingway
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
– Ernest Hemingway.
If I’m an ass, I should say so. If I don’t, somebody else will. If I...
– Charles Bukowski.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you...
– Charles Bukowski
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but...
– Jean Valjean in Les Misérables
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We’ll always remain a child within ourselves.
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Love, whether newly-born or aroused from a death-like slumber, must always...
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be...
– Edgar Allan Poe
March 2012
10 posts
…maybe I only exist in your mind. I’m still just as real as anything...
– Jesse (Waking Life)
Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving...
– Kim Krizan (Waking Life)
Famous Last Words:
Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - Francisco (“Pancho”) Villa.
I’ll be in Hell before you start breakfast! - “Black Jack” Ketchum, notorious train robber.
Get these fucking nuns away from me. - Norman Douglas.
Don’t worry…it’s not loaded… - Terry Kath, rock musician in the band Chicago Transit Authority as he put the gun he was cleaning to his head and pulled the...
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Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds...
– Jacek Tylicki
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Bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art, because it documents human...
– Henry Letham
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our...
– Jorge Luis Borges
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You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You’re not expecting it.
– Kurt Vonnegut
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Is sex dirty? Only if it’s done right.
– Woody Allen
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Love is the answer. But while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises...
– Woody Allen
The absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not...
– Haruki Murakami
February 2012
14 posts
2 tags
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in...
– Leo Tolstoy
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody...
– Kurt Vonnegut
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A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in...
– Joe Strummer
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is...
– Mark Twain
No shame in being shameless
Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay...
– James R. Cook
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be...
– Kurt Vonnegut
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This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to...
– Kurt Vonnegut
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
– Kurt Vonnegut
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The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not....
– Kurt Vonnegut