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"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"
— John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
363 people liked it

"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else."
— John Waters

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"If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't fuck them."
— John Waters

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"Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.
John Waters"
— John Waters

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"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them."
— John Waters

11 people liked it

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion
4,160 people liked it

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
— Stephen King (Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay)

tags: god, humor, religion
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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion
315 people liked it

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: heaven, religion
433 people liked it

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
— Sinclair Lewis

tags: fascism, freedom, politics, religion
334 people liked it

"Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake."
— Jon Stewart

tags: humor, religion
338 people liked it

"Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money."
— George Carlin

tags: atheism, humor, life, religion
580 people liked it

"Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively."
— Jon Stewart

tags: christianity, humor, religion
184 people liked it

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
218 people liked it

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
— Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion)

tags: religion
137 people liked it

"One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad."
— Aleister Crowley (Magick: Liber ABA)

tags: anti-christian, atheism, bible, religion
98 people liked it

"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without."
— Aleister Crowley

tags: metaphysics, philosophy
45 people liked it

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
— Aleister Crowley (The Book of Lies)

27 people liked it

"The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices."
— Aleister Crowley (Magick: Liber ABA)

18 people liked it

"Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them..."
— Aleister Crowley (The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz)

tags: poetry, satire, sodomy
7 people liked it

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
— Wayne Gretzky

31 people liked it

"I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times."
— Mark Messier

tags: inspirational, sports, winning
2 people liked it

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. "
— Barack Obama

tags: change, inspirational
469 people liked it

"Art is what you can get away with."
— Andy Warhol

tags: art
66 people liked it

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
— Andy Warhol (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol :)

tags: change, initiative, time
134 people liked it

"It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are."
— Andy Warhol

32 people liked it

"I believe in low lights and trick mirrors."
— Andy Warhol

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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
— Andy Warhol

tags: life
33 people liked it

"I think everybody should be nice to everybody."
— Andy Warhol

23 people liked it

"Most people in America think Art is a man's name."
— Andy Warhol

tags: art, humor
16 people liked it

"What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good."
— Andy Warhol

tags: consumerism
16 people liked it

"Everyone must have a fantasy."
— Andy Warhol

tags: fantasy
18 people liked it

"I am a deeply superficial person."
— Andy Warhol

15 people liked it

"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."
— Andy Warhol

tags: criticism
18 people liked it

"Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer."
— Andy Warhol

4 people liked it

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
— Andy Warhol

26 people liked it

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Truman Capote

tags: writing
98 people liked it

"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."
— Truman Capote (Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel)

51 people liked it

"There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion."
— Truman Capote

28 people liked it

"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
— Truman Capote

19 people liked it

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
— Truman Capote

tags: life
23 people liked it

"But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius."
— Truman Capote

tags: chameleons, for, music
26 people liked it

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
— Truman Capote

24 people liked it

"Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy."
— Truman Capote

tags: humor, self-description
11 people liked it

"It's redundant to die in Los Angeles."
— Truman Capote

8 people liked it

"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."
— Truman Capote

tags: humor, writing
8 people liked it

"It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural."
— Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

tags: normal
18 people liked it

"It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year."
— Truman Capote

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"I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."
— Truman Capote

13 people liked it

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

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