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  • #1
    Raymond Chandler
    “I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.”
    Raymond Chandler

  • #2
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #3
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    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

  • #4
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #5
    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #6
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #7
    Steve  Martin
    “I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”
    steve martin

  • #8
    Bill Watterson
    “You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
    What mood is that?
    Last-minute panic.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #9
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Art is the proper task of life. ”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #10
    Robert Henri
    “Do whatever you do intensely.”
    Robert Henri
    tags: art

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #13
    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #14
    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    Mae West

  • #15
    A.A. Milne
    “I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #16
    “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
    Carter Crocker

  • #17
    Neil Gaiman
    “Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #18
    Marlene Dietrich
    “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
    Marlene Dietrich

  • #19
    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    H.G. Wells

  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fat Charlie went back to his hotel room, the colour of underwater, where his lime sat, like a small green Buddha, on the countertop.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.”
    Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there's something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we say thank you to it, because it's always good to say thank you. But we never built churches. We didn't need to. The land was the church. The land was the religion. The land was older and wiser than the people who walked on it.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #24
    John   Gray
    “If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience.”
    John Gray

  • #25
    Terry Pratchett
    “Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them”
    Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

  • #26
    Terry Pratchett
    “And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.”
    Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

  • #27
    Terry Pratchett
    “This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, "We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts...”
    Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

  • #28
    “They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it.”
    C.E. Murphy, Heart of Stone

  • #29
    Aleister Crowley
    “Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”
    Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

  • #30
    Raymond Chandler
    “I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
    Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye



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