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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,052 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
5,972 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,000 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,179 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
6,781 people liked it

"Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?"
— Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)

tags: dystopia
30 people liked it

"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
— Anthony Burgess

13 people liked it

"When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man."
— Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)

tags: choice, life, man
31 people liked it

"it's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen"
— Anthony Burgess

11 people liked it

"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
— William S. Burroughs

tags: beat, fiction, satire, science
19 people liked it

"Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will."
— William S. Burroughs

26 people liked it

"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing."
— William S. Burroughs

32 people liked it

"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing."
— William S. Burroughs (Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts)

tags: art, existance, reality
8 people liked it

"It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music,
sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to
produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae
to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any
more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself.
Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make
things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's
formulae."
— William S. Burroughs

9 people liked it

"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative"
— William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch: The Restored Text)

14 people liked it

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
— Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
712 people liked it

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
— Albert Camus

tags: happiness, meaning-of-life
790 people liked it

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
— Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
478 people liked it

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
— Albert Camus

tags: civilization, writers, writing
147 people liked it

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."
— Albert Camus

tags: judgement, life, religion
123 people liked it

"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
— Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, greek, happiness, mythology, perspective, philosophy, purpose, sisyphus
50 people liked it

"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
— Albert Camus

tags: humanism
28 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
961 people liked it

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: blues, god, life, music
528 people liked it

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
— Kurt Vonnegut

379 people liked it

"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

tags: college, semicolons, writing
331 people liked it

"Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum."
— Kurt Vonnegut

215 people liked it

"Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization."
— Kurt Vonnegut

80 people liked it

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

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"The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions)

105 people liked it

"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: crayon, quip, writing
57 people liked it

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
— Kurt Vonnegut

117 people liked it

"In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness.

And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.

"Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.

"Certainly," said man.

"Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.

And He went away."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle)

41 people liked it

"Be patient, Ophelia.

Love,
Hamlet"
— Kurt Vonnegut

30 people liked it

"He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.'
'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.'
'What's so negative about it?' I said.
'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said.
'"Ignorance,"' I said."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Hocus Pocus)

tags: futility, ignorance, inspirational
22 people liked it

"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."
— Kurt Vonnegut

26 people liked it

"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
— Kurt Vonnegut

28 people liked it

"If you can do no good, at least do no harm."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slapstick)

tags: mantra
32 people liked it

"A sane person to an insane society must appear insane."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Welcome to the Monkey House)

38 people liked it

"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. "
— William S. Burroughs

tags: architects, artists, intellectual
7 people liked it

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. "
— William S. Burroughs

tags: burroughs, change, escape, inspirational
21 people liked it

"The face of evil is always the face of total need.
"
— William S. Burroughs

11 people liked it

"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

tags: life
831 people liked it

"RORSCHACH:

Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.
Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there.
The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion.
There is nothing else."
— Alan Moore (Absolute Watchmen)

tags: writing
33 people liked it

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."
— Alan Moore (Batman: The Killing Joke)

34 people liked it

"My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free."
— Alan Moore (V for Vendetta)

27 people liked it

"No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise."
— Alan Moore (Watchmen)

33 people liked it

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
— Alan Moore (V for Vendetta)

tags: government
100 people liked it

"[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
1,092 people liked it

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
— Jack Kerouac

327 people liked it

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