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"Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."
— Arnold Lobel

tags: books, reading
381 people liked it

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1)

tags: skeptic
198 people liked it

"I do not care to see men better off – but better!"
— Maxim Gorky

1 person liked it

"Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man."
— Maxim Gorky (Lower Depths and Other Plays)

1 person liked it

"When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning."
— Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions)

785 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,608 people liked it

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

tags: love
2,754 people liked it

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

1,166 people liked it

"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes)

tags: life
215 people liked it

"Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all."
— Neil Gaiman

101 people liked it

"What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?"
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes)

tags: sandman, series
65 people liked it

"The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

tags: humor
79 people liked it

"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."
— Neil Gaiman

tags: truth
55 people liked it

"His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

tags: children, gravity, youth
27 people liked it

"...God's penis would still rank high among those vistas a priest and a nun could not comfortably share."
— James Morrow (Towing Jehovah)

1 person liked it

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Act 5, scene 5, 19–28 "
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

327 people liked it

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: death, peace
396 people liked it

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

tags: books, humor
1,237 people liked it

"Ockham's disposable razors"
— James Morrow (Towing Jehovah)

1 person liked it

"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
— Christopher Hitchens

tags: reason, science, skeptic
100 people liked it

"'Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters."
— Neil Gaiman

20 people liked it

"Geddy once joked, "You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!"
— Neil Peart

tags: humor
2 people liked it

"Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you."
— Neil Peart

2 people liked it

"In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony."
— Harlan Ellison

5 people liked it

"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant."
— Harlan Ellison

tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
99 people liked it

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
— Harlan Ellison

tags: irony, mob, thinking
18 people liked it

"I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
— Stephen King

tags: dark-humor
251 people liked it

"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window."
— Stephen King

71 people liked it

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
— Stephen King (Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay)

tags: god, humor, religion
905 people liked it

" To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting elected President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. "
— Douglas Adams

tags: humorous
6 people liked it

"When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific."
— Lily Tomlin

39 people liked it

"Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth."
— Lily Tomlin

tags: humor, lies, truth
4 people liked it

"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between."
— Sylvia Plath (The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath)

tags: mood-swings
221 people liked it

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: neurosis
179 people liked it

"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: god
106 people liked it

"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: baths
83 people liked it

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

1,933 people liked it

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
— Ayn Rand

204 people liked it

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."
— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

119 people liked it

"The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it."
— Ayn Rand

tags: truth
69 people liked it

"If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

106 people liked it

"To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I"."
— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

104 people liked it

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
— Ursula K. LeGuin

tags: crazy, life, sanity
92 people liked it

"Belief is the wound that knowledge heals."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Telling)

tags: belief, knowledge
26 people liked it

"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
— Ursula K. Le Guin

14 people liked it

"Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Left Hand of Darkness)

16 people liked it

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke (Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible)

tags: science, technology
159 people liked it

"My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.'"
— Arthur C. Clarke

42 people liked it

"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."
— Arthur C. Clarke

tags: intelligence, survival
23 people liked it

"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

tags: inspirational
400 people liked it

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