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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: america
282 people liked it

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
— Woody Allen

tags: art, humor, life
353 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
2,958 people liked it

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"
— John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
362 people liked it

"Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream)

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"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life
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"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?- it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

97 people liked it

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark, fighting, monsters, side, soul
387 people liked it

"Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

109 people liked it

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. "
— Charles Bukowski

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"I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife
inside
because there was no alternative except to hide as long
as possible---
not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance:
trying to connect."
— Charles Bukowski

22 people liked it

"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience."
— Howard Zinn

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""Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of
the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new
ideas and for a better world, which has made us great."
"
— John F. Kennedy

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"I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.

"From the back pages""
— Bob Dylan

tags: age
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"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world. "
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
227 people liked it

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow."
— Lawrence Clark Powell

tags: communication
26 people liked it

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. "
— Anna Morrow Lindbergh

tags: communication, stimulation, talk
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"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
— Kurt Vonnegut

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"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
— Stanley Kubrick

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"I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better."
— Robert Frost

tags: love
32 people liked it

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

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"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."
— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

124 people liked it

"It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much."
— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live

9 people liked it

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: writing
495 people liked it

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
— Franz Kafka

tags: beauty, youth
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"I am free and that is why I am lost."
— Franz Kafka

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"Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe."
— Kafka, Franz

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"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
405 people liked it

"Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!"
— Dorothy Parker

67 people liked it

"And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned."
— Dorothy Parker (Sunset Gun)

tags: inspirational
48 people liked it

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: freedom, inspirational, literature
171 people liked it

"What labels me, negates me."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Invisible threads are the strongest ties"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: connection, invisibility, thread, ties
21 people liked it

"They muddy the water, to make it seem deep."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

18 people liked it

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

8 people liked it

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
— Simone de Beauvoir

22 people liked it

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others."
— Simone de Beauvoir

16 people liked it

"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."
— bell hooks

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"I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks"
— bell hooks

4 people liked it

"If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me."
— Gertrude Stein

18 people liked it

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Benjamin Disraeli

tags: truth
932 people liked it

"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."
— Meister Eckhart

tags: fallibility, truth, zen
22 people liked it

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
155 people liked it

"Once you label me you negate me."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: labeling, stereotyping
45 people liked it

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: truth
23 people liked it

"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: belief
16 people liked it

"The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have. - "
— Søren Kierkegaard

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"It is very important in life to know when your cue comes."
— Søren Kierkegaard

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