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"I'm a poet who can whine in meter"
— Sherman Alexie

7 people liked it

""I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.""
— Michel Foucault

5 people liked it

"I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote De La Mancha - Vol I: 1)

1 person liked it

"It would have been nice to have had unicorns."
— Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead)

4 people liked it

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
2,185 people liked it

"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
— Dave Barry

34 people liked it

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

tags: love, requirements
746 people liked it

""It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.""
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: pride-and-prejudice
46 people liked it

"Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all."
— Jane Austen

19 people liked it

"Too much sanity may be madness. But maddest of all, to see life as it is, and not as it should be!"
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

tags: inspirational
28 people liked it

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
— Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead)

49 people liked it

"It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies."
— Noam Chomsky

13 people liked it

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life
106 people liked it

"We are our choices."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: choices
43 people liked it

"Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility."
— Simone de Beauvoir

tags: anti-oppression
4 people liked it

"I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves."
— Mary Wollstonecraft

tags: rights, women-s
11 people liked it

"Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain."
— Dave Barry

tags: chocolate
41 people liked it

"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. "
— Dave Barry

tags: camping, humor
25 people liked it

"Todo es hermoso y constante,
Todo es música y razón,
Y todo, como el diamante,
Antes que luz es carbón."
— José Martí (Simple Verses/Versos Sencillos)

6 people liked it

"That which the fascists hate, above all else, is intelligence."
— Miguel de Unamuno

2 people liked it

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: books, library, reading
1,414 people liked it

"Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery."
— Federico García Lorca

14 people liked it

"In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."
— Federico García Lorca

3 people liked it

"All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be."
— Pink Floyd

5 people liked it

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
— Salvador Dali

tags: drugs
57 people liked it

"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."
— Salvador Dali

tags: dreams, reality
15 people liked it

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."
— Salvador Dali

tags: humor, poet
14 people liked it

"I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: dreams, stars
91 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

"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more."
— Franz Kafka

tags: vegetarianism
32 people liked it

"I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. "
— Franz Kafka

3 people liked it

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing
35 people liked it

"Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven."
— Erma Bombeck

tags: chores, cleanliness, housekeeping
18 people liked it

"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead."
— Erma Bombeck

tags: football, men, sports, television
14 people liked it

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one."
— Erma Bombeck

14 people liked it

"Art is never finished, only abandoned"
— Leonardo da Vinci

9 people liked it

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: flight, flying, inspirational
103 people liked it

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
— Leonardo da Vinci

4 people liked it

"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."
— George Orwell

tags: political, war
31 people liked it

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
— George Orwell

17 people liked it

"Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence."
— George Orwell

7 people liked it

"[Home Economics Textbook from 1950]: "Make [your husband] comfortable. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in low, soft, soothing tones, allowing him to relax and unwind."

Mama Celia: "Place a pillow over his head and hold it there until he promises to do at least one household chore a month."
— Celia Rivenbark (Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments)

tags: 50-s, humor, marriage
2 people liked it

"It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy."
— Albert Camus

tags: spain, vanquish, victory, war
10 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
6,516 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,555 people liked it

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
— Katharine Hepburn

23 people liked it

"What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate."
— Katharine Hepburn

tags: chocolate
23 people liked it

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
— Katharine Hepburn

6 people liked it

"The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul."
— Maxim Gorky (Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918)

tags: art
1 person liked it

"Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public."
— Maxim Gorky (Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918)

tags: politics
1 person liked it

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