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  • #1
    Philip Larkin
    “I have wished you something
    None of the others would....”
    Philip Larkin

  • #2
    Henry Miller
    “By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.”
    Henry Miller

  • #3
    José Rizal
    “One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
    Jose Rizal

  • #4
    Charles Dickens
    “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #5
    Patti Smith
    “Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.”
    Patti Smith

  • #6
    Patti Smith
    “Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

    (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
    Patti Smith

  • #7
    Jonathan Franzen
    “Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
    Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

  • #8
    Jonathan Franzen
    “Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.”
    Jonathan Franzen

  • #9
    Greg Carlisle
    “Anything that inspires addiction or obsession - substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy - is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.”
    Greg Carlisle, Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

  • #10
    Charles Bukowski
    “Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over for dinner?’ and I can just say, ‘Car won’t make it.’ I don’t have to tell them that time is scarcer than young pussy around here, and I don’t mean time to write POETRY. I mean time to lay in bed, alone, and stare up at the ceiling and not think at all, not at all, not at all…”
    Charles Bukowski, Screams From the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970

  • #11
    George Carlin
    “I don't like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.'" Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name. If they say, "We're the So-and-Sos," take a walk. And if, somehow, you must join, if it's unavoidable, such as a union or a trade association, go ahead and join. But don't participate; it will be your death. And if they tell you you're not a team player, congratulate them on being observant.”
    George Carlin

  • #12
    George Carlin
    “No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.”
    George Carlin, Brain Droppings

  • #13
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #14
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

  • #15
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it's just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it's gone.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values



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