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“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

“Heart, have no pity on this house of bone:
Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview: Sonnets

“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I have never been able to understand people with consistent lives – people who, for example, grow up in a liberal Catholic household and stay that way; or who in junior high school are already laying down a record on which to run for president one day. Imagine having no discarded personalities, no vestigial selves, no visible ruptures with yourself, no gulf of self-forgetfulness, nothing that requires explanation, no alien version of yourself that requires humor and accommodation. What kind of life is that?”
― Michael Warner

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....”
― Charles Schultz

“If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
― Herman Wouk

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas