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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“The Laughing Heart

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.”
― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories

“It's a widely accepted principle,' he says, 'that you can claim a piece of land which has been inhabited for tens of thousands of years, if only you repeat this mantra endlessly: 'We discovered it, we discovered it, we discovered it....”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“To be is to do’ — Socrates.
‘To do is to be’ — Jean-Paul Sartre.
‘Do be do be do’ — Frank Sinatra.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“I was the great marksman, anyway. If I aimed at nothing, then nothing is what I would hit.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“History is merely a list of surprises,' I said. 'It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.”
― kurt vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

“This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!