Greg Heaney's favorite quotes

"This is not for you."
— Mark Z. Danielewski

""I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry." "
— John Cage

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. "
— Umberto Eco

36 people liked it

"In war everybody is a prisoner."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories)

3 people liked it

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

tags: humanity, mankind, the-brothers-karamazov

38 people liked it

"Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

101 people liked it

"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming"
— H.P. Lovecraft (The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories)

12 people liked it

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown"
— H.P. Lovecraft

67 people liked it

"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane."
— H.P. Lovecraft

tags: dance, dancing, life

88 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

1,294 people liked it

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: censorship

47 people liked it

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
— Mary Shelley

tags: inspirational

13 people liked it

"Despair has its own calms"
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

17 people liked it

"Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one."
— Flannery O'Connor

36 people liked it

"Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic."
— Flannery O'Connor

16 people liked it

"Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too."
— Flannery O'Connor

6 people liked it

"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."
— Flannery O'Connor

tags: christ, religion, south

3 people liked it

"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night."
— Phillip K. Dick

4 people liked it

"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."
— Philip K. Dick

21 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

2,527 people liked it

"Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: car, funny, humor, religious

1,139 people liked it

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit

171 people liked it

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, fiction, literature

333 people liked it

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