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“Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”
― scott adams

“Helen savored the peace and quiet that only came in the complete absence of stupid questions.”
― Christopher Farnsworth

“Don't you have somewhere you need to be?" she gritted. "The kitchen? The sewers? The fires of hell?”
― Alexandra Ivy, When Darkness Comes

“The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat...”
― Edward Lear

“History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
― Charles Bukowski

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.”
― Ariana Reines

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“Great Paddy Shits in the Mornin', Elora! He's a vampire! No' a stray dog!”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!”
― Sheri S. Tepper, A Plague of Angels

“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style

“Metaphor isn't just decorative language. If it were, it wouldn't scare us so much. . . . Colorful language threatens some people, who associate it, I think, with a kind of eroticism (playing with language in public = playing with yourself), and with extra expense (having to sense or feel more). I don't share that opinion. Why reduce life to a monotone? Is that truer to the experience of being alive? I don't think so. It robs us of life's many textures. Language provides an abundance of words to keep us company on our travels. But we're losing words at a reckless pace, the national vocabulary is shrinking. Most Americans use only several hundred words or so. Frugality has its place, but not in the larder of language. We rely on words to help us detail how we feel, what we once felt, what we can feel. When the blood drains out of language, one's experience of life weakens and grows pale. It's not simply a dumbing down, but a numbing.”
― Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

“Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.”
― Howard Tayler, Emperor Pius Dei

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

“That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.”
― Kim Harrison, For a Few Demons More

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”
― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

“I'm most dangerous when bored." ~Drahomira, vampire”
― Sherry Rentschler, Midnight Assassin: A Tale of Lust and Revenge

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass