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“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“Did anybody tell you that you're a few french fries short of a Happy Meal?”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, This Heart of Mine

“Use a condom. The world doesn't need another you.”
― Carroll Bryant

“Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.”
― Oscar Levant

“My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen”
― David Eddings

“I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.”
― Susan Andersen, Baby, Don't Go

“His ignorance is encyclopedic.”
― Abba Eban

“Lemme take your picture! You fucking bok gwai low got a face carved out of rotten potato cured in dogshit, runover with a towtruck driven by Hellen Keller in a puke fit on pills...”
― Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman & The Year of the Dragon

“And since when is stealing people's possessions the call of God? you are all hypocrites who have suddenly come into power, and you don't know how to handle it”
― Dalia Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz

“Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“Words cannot express my disappointment that I must pass on the invitation to once again witness your gelatinous buttocks swaying as you try to climb a greased pole naked in search of athletic glory. Sadly, the last occasion on which I witnessed this event had a deleterious effect on my psyche for which I am still seeking the attention of a therapist.

A.C. Kemp as Lady Arabella Snark”
― A.C. Kemp, The Perfect Insult for Every Occasion

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale