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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
― Albert Camus

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.”
― Stanley Kunitz

“Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
― Dr. Seuss

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
― C. S. Lewis

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost