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"If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?"
— Ken Kesey

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,800 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,133 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
12,117 people liked it

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,465 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,613 people liked it

"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
— William S. Burroughs

tags: beat, fiction, satire, science
20 people liked it

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. "
— William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics
217 people liked it

"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."
— William S. Burroughs

tags: death, frying, murder, pan
12 people liked it

"It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy."
— William S. Burroughs

15 people liked it

"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. "
— William S. Burroughs

15 people liked it

"Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born."
— William S. Burroughs (The Western Lands)

3 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
18,329 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
7,614 people liked it

"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."
— William S. Burroughs

12 people liked it

"Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse."
— William S. Burroughs

tags: life
10 people liked it

"I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it."
— William S. Burroughs

35 people liked it

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."
— William S. Burroughs

15 people liked it

"There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?"
— William S. Burroughs

11 people liked it

"The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

81 people liked it

"Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girl friend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain."
— Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

33 people liked it

"To hell with facts! We need stories!"
— Ken Kesey

22 people liked it

"The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. "
— Ken Kesey

38 people liked it

"We can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed."
— Ken Kesey

1 person liked it

"A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live."
— Bradford Angier (On your own in the wilderness)

2 people liked it

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