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"From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism."
— Grant Morrison (The Invisibles Vol. 6: Kissing Mister Quimper)

tags: ontology
12 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,215 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,534 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,370 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,907 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,011 people liked it

"“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.”"
— Walter Benjamin

tags: philosophy
3 people liked it

"But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it."
— John Updike (A & P: Lust in the Aisles)

tags: inspirational
6 people liked it

"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings."
— John Updike (A Month of Sundays)

tags: life, time
14 people liked it

"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."
— John Updike (Rabbit, Run)

tags: inspirational
8 people liked it

"Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them."
— John Updike

3 people liked it

"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love."
— Christopher Morley

tags: bibliophilia, books
128 people liked it

"That's what this country needs -- more books!"
— Christopher Morley

tags: book, books, reading
6 people liked it

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Gibson

90 people liked it

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding... "
— William Gibson (Neuromancer)

11 people liked it

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

tags: irony, life, loneliness
169 people liked it

"All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next."
— Douglas Coupland

tags: family
30 people liked it

"We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die."
— Douglas Coupland

tags: destiny, fate, inspirational, strength
38 people liked it

"Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon."
— Douglas Coupland

9 people liked it

"Eroticize intelligence."
— Douglas Coupland (Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture)

tags: intelligence
6 people liked it

"Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?"
— Douglas Coupland (JPod)

14 people liked it

"...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal."
— Douglas Coupland

tags: coupland, nostradamus
4 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)

1,107 people liked it

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
— Neil Gaiman

751 people liked it

"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."
— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

tags: books, bookstore, towns
326 people liked it

"Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?"
— Neil Gaiman

tags: librarians
142 people liked it

"I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept."
— Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere)

85 people liked it

"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time."
— Neil Gaiman

123 people liked it

"Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets."
— Neil Gaiman (Stardust)

85 people liked it

"‘Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’

Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘...Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly."
— Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book)

tags: cats, humor
49 people liked it

"That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

tags: age, old, youth
7 people liked it

"He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

tags: humor
44 people liked it

"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

"Love is wiser than wisdom."
— Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose)

3 people liked it

"Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world."
— Jasper Fforde (First Among Sequels)

tags: humor, poetry
163 people liked it

"If real life were a book, it would never find a publisher."
— Jasper Fforde

tags: humor
67 people liked it

"I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you."
— Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair)

14 people liked it

"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head."
— Jasper Fforde (The Well of Lost Plots)

tags: books
23 people liked it

"A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him."
— Jostein Gaarder (The Solitaire Mystery)

tags: difference, joker, loneliness, stranger
18 people liked it

"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."
— Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World)

tags: curiosity
21 people liked it

"People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent."
— Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World)

tags: sociology
2 people liked it

"Clearly, America has no shortage of metephorical opportunities for the poor."
— Stephen Colbert (I Am America: And So Can You!)

tags: humor, life
20 people liked it

""A person's value is attached to a variable exponent.""
— David Bajo

tags: math, self, worth
2 people liked it

"Do you think people love having jobs, Sylvia asks Peter in <Theory,> because they offer a condoned but false responsibility that masks, for at least eight hours a day, true responsibility?"
— David Bajo

tags: repsonsibility, work
1 person liked it

"Love, I have always known, is an evolutionary trait. It is a delicately tuned, intricate, sensitive impulse, but a trait nevertheless, a reaction honed by millions of years of an ever-changing and complex mating instinct."
— David Bajo

tags: evolution, love
1 person liked it

"Truth was ever the afterlife of words.
~Drusas Achamian"
— Scott R. R. Bakker

tags: afterlife, truth
1 person liked it

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution."
— Jasper Fforde (Something Rotten)

12 people liked it

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