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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
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    Jonathan Carroll
    “One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. ”
    ― Jonathan Carroll
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    David Cronenberg
    “Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)”
    ― David Cronenberg
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    Jonathan Carroll
    “Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.”
    ― Jonathan Carroll, Kissing the Beehive
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    Jonathan Carroll
    “The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply what has taken you so long to learn.”
    ― Jonathan Carroll, Kissing the Beehive
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Thomas M. Disch
    “Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known”
    ― Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration
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    Jonathan Lethem
    “You can't be deep without a surface”
    ― Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet
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    Philip K. Dick
    “The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: epistemology, philosophy, post-modernism, reality, truth
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    Philip K. Dick
    “There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: dystopia, liberty, spying, surveillance, surveillance-society, technology
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Luis Buñuel
    “Thank God I'm an atheist!”
    ― Luis Bunuel
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    Voltaire
    “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

    (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life
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    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
    ― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
    tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
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    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    “Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

    (Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.)”
    ― Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville
    tags: singing, stupidity
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    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Frank Herbert
    “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 the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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  • #23
    “In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”
    ― Peter Stone
    tags: life, politics
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    Seneca
    “All cruelty springs from weakness.”
    ― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
    tags: behavior, character, cruelty, weakness
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    Tom McCarthy
    “Guns aren't just history's props and agents: they're history itself, spinning alternate futures in their chamber, hurling the present from their barrel, casting aside the empty shells of past ”
    ― Tom McCarthy, Remainder
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
    ― Howard Phillips Lovecraft
    tags: dance, dancing, life
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    Groucho Marx
    “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
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    John Fowles
    “When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.”
    ― John Fowles, The Collector
    tags: art, drawing, painting, philosophy, photography
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: children-s-lit, favorites, humor
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    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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