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"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."
— Graham Greene (The End of the Affair)

tags: god, hate
23 people liked it

"As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me."
— H. Rider Haggard

tags: humor
7 people liked it

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
— E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing
61 people liked it

"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. "
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

5 people liked it

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem. "
— John Galsworthy

3 people liked it

"I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over."
— Henrik Johan Ibsen

tags: majority, society
14 people liked it

"And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it." "
— Guy de Maupassant

2 people liked it

"No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress."
— Henry Fielding (Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics))

tags: literary
5 people liked it

"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

86 people liked it

"“How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.”

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— Sophocles

tags: oedipus, rex
9 people liked it

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: inspirational
45 people liked it

"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."
— Niccolò Machiavelli

tags: political, sociology, theory
20 people liked it

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. "
— Hans Christian Andersen

tags: andersen, christian, hans
33 people liked it

"No matter how bad things get, you've got to go on living, even if it kills you."
— Sholem Aleichem

8 people liked it

"He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt."
— Joseph Heller (Catch-22)

43 people liked it

"Insanity is contagious."
— Joseph Heller (Catch-22)

37 people liked it

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
1,621 people liked it

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship, soul
634 people liked it

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children
1,003 people liked it

"Power is neither male or female."
— Michael Crichton (Disclosure)

tags: power, sexism
22 people liked it

"Time is the longest distance between two places"
— Tennessee Williams

tags: distance, time
32 people liked it

"Never do anything yourself that others can do for you."
— Agatha Christie

66 people liked it

"Beware of the clever ones; the dumb ones are safer."
— Lilian Jackson Braun (The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern)

8 people liked it

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing
1,101 people liked it

"Frankly, I don't give a damn.

-Rhett Butler"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

tags: butler, rhett
102 people liked it

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: inspirational
334 people liked it

"There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

106 people liked it

"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth."
— Friedrich von Schiller

7 people liked it

"All sorrows are less with bread. "
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

tags: bread, food
22 people liked it

"Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas."
— Patrick O'Brian (The Hundred Days)

tags: dr, maturin, o-brian, patrick
7 people liked it

"I detest those who deceive me..."
— Steve Berry

5 people liked it

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change"
— Charles Darwin

49 people liked it

"it's almost easier being down and alone than when you re up and no one s there to share the view with you"
— Andre Dubus III (House of Sand and Fog)

3 people liked it

"Not only the lonely lonely."
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,002 people liked it

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
948 people liked it

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
— Elie Wiesel

176 people liked it

"There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a justified war but there is a war of necessity and we have to fight it if we want to assure our way of life even if it’s the wrong one."
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

"Why the Devil survived for so long? Is it because he is the Devil or is it because he is much smarter than the oldest guy around? Go figure."
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

"Stupidity is a relevant term and it is relevant to the owner of the stupid brain. Smartness is an irrelevant term and it is irrelevant to the owner of the smart brain because even the smart people can do and say stupid things."
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

"Only the human mind, unspoiled by the officially structured education and the authority opinions on different subjects, can produce an original thinker. Hail to morons!"
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

"Craziness is only the state of mind."
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

"How do you know that you are wise without trying to share thoughts with idiots?"
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: love
431 people liked it

"No one ever is "nothing". We all have presence even if it’s a slight one."
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

"Our children are flowers but only for us. Nevertheless, smell of these flowers goes to everyone."
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

"Travel is the physical move from point A to point B that could be very expensive and it could contain a questionable experience."
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

"Food always sounds optimistic when you have it and pessimistic when you don’t."
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

"History is the past that is definitely, hopefully not coming back."
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

"Every religion is tailored down to the level of intelligence of the people embracing it and Islam takes the cake for being the most tailored religion."
— Boris Zubry

tags: observations-
1 person liked it

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