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    “Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?”
    ― Despair Inc.
    tags: demotivators, mad, madness
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    “Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.”
    ― Despair Inc.
    tags: attitude, burnout
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    Fabio Lanzoni
    “My God! You are almost as beautiful as I am!”
    ― Fabio
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    John Hodgman
    “Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.”
    ― John Hodgman
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    Fritz Leiber
    “The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.”
    ― Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
    tags: honesty
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    Christopher Moore
    “If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
    ― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping
    tags: humor, insanity, sanity
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    Christopher Moore
    “Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.”
    ― Christopher Moore
    tags: books, stephenie-meyer, twilight, vampires
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    Christopher Moore
    “Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”
    ― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job
    tags: parents
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    Christopher Moore
    “Charlie Asher: I accidently shagged a monk last night.
    Minty Fresh: Sometimes, in times of crisis, that shit cannot be avoided.”
    ― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job
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    Christopher Moore
    “Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry, you can't have a baby brother, because that would mean that Daddy had sex, and that's never going to happen again.”
    ― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job
    tags: humor
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    Christopher Moore
    “Charlie noted that more and more lately, he had a hard time resisting the urge to fuck with people, especially when they insisted upon behaving like idiots.”
    ― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job
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    Christopher Moore
    “Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.”
    ― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job
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    Phil Foglio
    “Now I am in control!" He followed this statement with a burst of laughter that showed the owner had done a fair share of gloating in his time, and had the basics down pat.”
    ― Phil Foglio, Agatha H and the Airship City
    tags: gloating, humor, villians
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    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: gates-of-hell, hell, latin, motto
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Groucho Marx
    “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: friends, humor, jail
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    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    ― Ernest Benn
    tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems
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    Douglas Adams
    “Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: music, power-of-music, universe
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    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “To play without passion is inexcusable!”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: death, humor
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  • #25
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Terry Pratchett
    “He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: death, humor
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  • #27
    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Leo Rosten
    “O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
    ― Leo Rosten
    tags: adulthood, fairy-tales
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  • #29
    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
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  • #30
    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
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  • #31
    Saul Bellow
    “Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
    ― Saul Bellow, Herzog
    tags: life
    2111 likes



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