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#1

“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

tags: foolish, foolish-people, ignorant, incuriosity, uninformed, uninformed-opinion

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#2

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

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#3

“Wir können uns einreden, dass wir mit einem Buch nicht allein sind, wie wir uns einreden können, dass wir mit einem Menschen nicht allein sind.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles

tags: allein, alleinsein, alone, book, buch, german

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#4

“Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.”
― Stephen Fry

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#5

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

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#6

“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
― William Randolph Hearst

tags: misattributed-to-george-orwell, news, public-relations

716 likes

#7

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: absurd

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#8

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

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#9

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#10

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: drinking

1307 likes

#11

“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair

tags: foibles, ideals

524 likes

#12

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: happiness, human-nature, humanity, perfection, time

1200 likes

#13

“I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.”
― William Golding

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#14

“When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.”
― Mark Gatiss

tags: doctor-who, night-terrors

168 likes

#15

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

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