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“Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“Good people drink good beer.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

“Life was not longer something to endure, but to live. ”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

“My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.”
― David Lynch

“One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.”
― John Fante