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""Nobody likes a clown at midnight""
— Stephen King

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"“Anathema didn’t only believe in ley-lines, but in seals, whales, bicycles, rain forests, whole grain in loaves, recycled paper, white South Africans out of South Africa, and Americans out of practically everywhere down to and including Long Island.”"
— Terry Prachett & Neil Gaiman

tags: africa, south
2 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,376 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
249 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,137 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,209 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,498 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,353 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,426 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,524 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
6,695 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,198 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,624 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,187 people liked it

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
— Douglas Adams

tags: learning
986 people liked it

""The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.""
— Nick Harkaway

4 people liked it

"I am Nemesis, meting out just deserts"
— Nick Harkaway

tags: away, gone, world
1 person liked it

"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh."
— Voltaire

75 people liked it

"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."
— Voltaire

tags: books, reading
61 people liked it

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe"
— Voltaire

19 people liked it

"It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books."
— Voltaire

13 people liked it

"Man is free at the instant he wants to be."
— Voltaire

14 people liked it

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
— Voltaire

tags: double, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, standards, war
124 people liked it

"If we believe absurdities we shall commit atrocities."
— Voltaire

64 people liked it

"A witty saying proves nothing. "
— Voltaire

55 people liked it

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