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"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."
— Joss Whedon

tags: individuality
557 people liked it

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: future
104 people liked it

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
— Terry Pratchett (Jingo)

tags: humor, proverb
2,014 people liked it

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn."
— Joss Whedon

tags: business, show
120 people liked it

"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

tags: life
850 people liked it

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

tags: -on, from, writing-
309 people liked it

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
330 people liked it

"A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. (from the introduction)"
— Stephen King (Skeleton Crew)

tags: reading, writing
167 people liked it

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn to the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

tags: motivational, scifi
377 people liked it

"Turn on, Tune in, Drop out"
— Timothy Leary (Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out)

11 people liked it

"Never mix books and bed. In the spectrum of excitement, sex & thought were on opposite ends. Both to be enjoyed, but never at the same time."
— Ian Caldwell (The Rule of Four)

1 person liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,104 people liked it

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor
1,348 people liked it

"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

tags: america, books, politics
1,021 people liked it

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: reading
555 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,337 people liked it

"I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful."
— Yann Martel

tags: working
17 people liked it

"You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to the all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow."
— Gary Gygax

tags: dm, dming, dnd, dungeons-and-dragons
11 people liked it

"Uh, hey, I got a idea. Instead of us hanging around playing art critic 'til I get pinched by the man, how's about we move away from this eerie-ass piece of work, and get on with our increasingly eerie-ass day. How's that?"
— Jayne Cobb

tags: -jaynestown-, firefly
6 people liked it

"Wash: "Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."

Zoe: "We live in a space ship, dear."

"
— Firefly (Objects in Space)

10 people liked it

"I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters."
— Philip Palmer

tags: debatable-space
2 people liked it

"Where there is love there is life."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: life, love
1,105 people liked it

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
— Anaïs Nin

87 people liked it

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

126 people liked it

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
— Douglas Adams

tags: learning
983 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,269 people liked it

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
— Neil Gaiman

775 people liked it

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational
1,078 people liked it

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: buddism, kindness, religion
190 people liked it

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'

No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: hope, life, pain, strength, tragedy
78 people liked it

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: compassion, humanity, love
51 people liked it

"The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: life, religion
44 people liked it

"The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: religion
19 people liked it

"People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy."
— Joss Whedon

tags: television, writing
225 people liked it

"I'll take crazy over stupid any day."
— Joss Whedon

114 people liked it

"Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing."
— Joss Whedon

tags: humor, joss, whedon
105 people liked it

"Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck."
— Joss Whedon

tags: whedon
78 people liked it

"There’s a fine a line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that."
— Joss Whedon

tags: humor, stalking
74 people liked it

""Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping ... waiting ... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir ... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us ... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love ... the clarity of hatred ... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead." "
— Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

tags: buffy
76 people liked it

"The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is."
— Joss Whedon

tags: whedon
33 people liked it

"I cannot abide useless people."
— Joss Whedon

19 people liked it

"He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."
— Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)

48 people liked it

"Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you’ll never miss a mother’s love
Till she’s buried beneath the clay."
— Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)

19 people liked it

"It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head."
— Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)

25 people liked it

"It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen"
— Frank McCourt (' Tis: a Memoir)

7 people liked it

"People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.

Above all -- we were wet."
— Frank McCourt

6 people liked it

"After a full belly all is poetry."
— Frank McCourt (' Tis: a Memoir)

7 people liked it

"My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading."
— Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)

tags: books, child, children, parents, reading
32 people liked it

"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs."
— Anne Fadiman

tags: bibliophile, bibliophiles, books, reader, reading
23 people liked it

"In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar."
— Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)

tags: book, books
7 people liked it

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