Amanda's favorite quotes

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

"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

9,733 people liked it

"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor, politics

400 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

399 people liked it

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"
— Kurt Vonnegut (Timequake)

162 people liked it

"If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way to make life more bearable."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

144 people liked it

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

115 people liked it

"I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.'"
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: beatles

84 people liked it

"Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?"
— Kurt Vonnegut

38 people liked it

"If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?"
— Kurt Vonnegut

14 people liked it

"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: kindness

4 people liked it

"What most people want… what many people need desperately to receive is this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don’t care about them. You are not alone."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Timequake)

tags: alone, not

3 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

4,618 people liked it

"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful."
— Milan Kundera

tags: love

703 people liked it

"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

tags: logic, love

336 people liked it

"As your lover describes you, so you are."
— Jeanette Winterson

tags: love

91 people liked it

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

tags: love, poetry

2,629 people liked it

"Who, being loved, is poor?"
— Oscar Wilde

tags: love

388 people liked it

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: happiness, love

358 people liked it

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