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“The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia

“Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.”
― Grant Morrison, Sebastian O

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“ ...reality, the name we give to the common experience.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
― Woody Allen

“Give us this day our daily mask.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”
― Charles Bukowski

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford

“What's meant to be will always find a way”
― Trisha Yearwood

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion