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“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
― Pat Monahan

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”
― Robin Williams

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
― George Carlin

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

“Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a "fuck." I'll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I'd be like, "And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers." How could you not, if you're a human being? Maybe they're not so admirable. Maybe they're robot zombies.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
― John Lennon

“Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
― John Lennon

“That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”
― John Lennon

“Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down