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"Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: traveling
14 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,459 people liked it

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science
1,572 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
5,620 people liked it

"We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time."
— T.S. Eliot (Four Quartets)

tags: poetry
130 people liked it

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: poetry
67 people liked it

"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."
— T.S. Eliot

27 people liked it

"Humankind cannot bear very much reality"
— T.S. Eliot (Four Quartets)

30 people liked it

"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
— Salman Rushdie

tags: censorship, free, speech
80 people liked it

"A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep."
— Salman Rushdie

tags: poetry, poets
59 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
4,952 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,396 people liked it

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, morality, reading
944 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
6,568 people liked it

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading
746 people liked it

"I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER"."
— Groucho Marx (Groucho and Me)

tags: clique, clubs, humor, membership
410 people liked it

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
— Groucho Marx

196 people liked it

"I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal."
— Groucho Marx

128 people liked it

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life
2,706 people liked it

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
— Woody Allen

tags: success
120 people liked it

"I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social."
— Woody Allen

tags: misanthrope
62 people liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
3,002 people liked it

"When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: myths
56 people liked it

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."
— Madeleine L'Engle

39 people liked it

"Believing takes practice."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

tags: belief
35 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
9,290 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,022 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,098 people liked it

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

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,279 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
2,200 people liked it

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

312 people liked it

"What strange creatures brothers are!"
— Jane Austen

tags: brothers
136 people liked it

"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."
— Jane Austen

79 people liked it

"There are people who the more you do for them the less they will do for themselves. "
— Jane Austen

40 people liked it

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
1,816 people liked it

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: activism, life, philosophical
146 people liked it

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

tags: books
307 people liked it

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."
— Franz Kafka

tags: books
46 people liked it

"Books are a narcotic."
— Franz Kafka

tags: books
36 people liked it

"I am a cage, in search of a bird."
— Franz Kafka

31 people liked it

"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman."
— Albert Camus

tags: beauty, humanity, inhumanity
95 people liked it

"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics
970 people liked it

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: blues, god, life, music
531 people liked it

"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
— Kurt Vonnegut

207 people liked it

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world
980 people liked it

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, pain
234 people liked it

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