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  • #1
    Charles Bukowski
    “If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
    Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

  • #2
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #3
    Charles Bukowski
    “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #4
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    Charles Bukowski, Barfly

  • #5
    Charles Bukowski
    “those who escape hell
    however
    never talk about
    it
    and nothing much
    bothers them
    after
    that.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #6
    Carol Tavris
    “What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake.”
    Carol Tavris, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

  • #7
    Carol Tavris
    “Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. When we began working on this book, the poster boy for "tenacious clinging to a discredited belief" was George W. Bush. Bush was wrong in his claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, he was wrong in claiming that Saddam was linked with Al Qaeda, he was wrong in predicting that Iraqis would be dancing joyfully in the streets to receive the American soldiers, he was wrong in predicting that the conflict would be over quickly, he was wrong in his gross underestimate of the financial cost of the war, and he was most famously wrong in his photo-op speech six weeks after the invasion began, when he announced (under a banner reading MISSION ACCOMPLISHED) that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”
    Carol Tavris, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

  • #8
    Daniel Kahneman
    “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
    Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • #9
    Daniel Kahneman
    “The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”
    Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • #10
    Daniel Kahneman
    “Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
    Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • #11
    Daniel Kahneman
    “Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
    Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • #12
    Jon Ronson
    “There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.”
    Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

  • #13
    Jon Ronson
    “‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.”
    Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

  • #14
    Jon Ronson
    “I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.”
    Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #16
    Carol Tavris
    “It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.”
    Carol Tavris, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

  • #17
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    Victor Hugo

  • #18
    Carol Tavris
    “In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.”
    Carol Tavris, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

  • #19
    Fridtjof Nansen
    “I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward”
    Fridtjof Nansen

  • #20
    Christopher Hitchens
    “[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
    Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

  • #21
    Mircea Cărtărescu
    “Pentru că au sâni rotunzi, cu gurguie care se ridică prin bluză când le e frig, pentru că au fundul mare şi grăsuţ, pentru că au feţe cu trăsături dulci ca ale copiilor, pentru că au buze pline, dinţi decenţi şi limbi de care nu ţi-e silă.
    Pentru că nu miros a transpiraţie sau a tutun prost şi nu asudă pe buza superioară. Pentru că le zâmbesc tuturor copiilor mici care trec pe lângă ele.
    Pentru că merg pe stradă drepte, cu capul sus, cu umerii traşi înapoi şi nu răspund privirii tale când le fixezi ca un maniac.
    Pentru că trec cu un curaj neaşteptat peste toate servitutile anatomiei lor delicate. Pentru că în pat sunt îndrăzneţe şi inventive nu din perversitate, ci ca să-ţi arate că te iubesc.
    Pentru că fac toate treburile sâcâitoare şi mărunte din casă fără să se laude cu asta şi fără să ceară recunoştinţă.
    Pentru că nu citesc reviste porno şi nu navighează pe site-uri porno.
    Pentru că poartă tot soiul de zdrăngănele pe care şi le asortează la îmbrăcăminte după reguli complicate şi de neînţeles.
    Pentru că îşi desenează şi-şi pictează feţele cu atenţia concentrată a unui artist inspirat.
    Pentru că au obsesia pentru subţirime a lui Giacometti.
    Pentru că se trag din fetiţe.
    Pentru că-şi ojează unghiile de la picioare.
    Pentru că joacă şah, whist sau ping-pong fără sa le intereseze cine câştigă.
    Pentru că şofează prudent în maşini lustruite ca nişte bomboane, aşteptând să le admiri când sunt oprite la stop şi treci pe zebră prin faţa lor.
    Pentru că au un fel de-a rezolva probleme care te scoate din minţi.
    Pentru că au un fel de-a gândi care te scoate din minţi.
    Pentru că-ţi spun „te iubesc” exact atunci când te iubesc mai puţin, ca un fel de compensaţie.
    Pentru că nu se masturbează.
    Pentru că au din când în când mici suferinţe: o durere reumatică, o constipaţie, o bătătură, şi-atunci îţi dai seama deodată că femeile sunt oameni, oameni ca şi tine.
    Pentru că scriu fie extrem de delicat, colecţionând mici observaţii şi schiţând subtile nuanţe psihologice, fie brutal şi scatologic ca nu cumva să fie suspectate de literatură feminină.
    Pentru că sunt extraordinare cititoare, pentru care se scriu trei sferturi din poezia şi proza lumii.
    Pentru că le înnebuneşte „Angie” al Rolling-ilor.
    Pentru că le termină Cohen.
    Pentru că poartă un război total şi inexplicabil contra gândacilor de bucătărie.
    Pentru că până şi cea mai dură bussiness woman poartă chiloţi cu înduioşătoare floricele şi danteluţe.
    Pentru că e aşa de ciudat să-ntinzi la uscat, pe balcon, chiloţii femeii tale, nişte lucruşoare umede, negre, roşii şi albe, parte satinate, parte aspre, mirându-te ce mici suprafeţe au de acoperit.
    Pentru că în filme nu fac duş niciodată înainte de-a face dragoste, dar numai în filme.
    Pentru că niciodată n-ajungi cu ele la un acord în privinţa frumuseţii altei femei sau a altui bărbat.
    Pentru că iau viaţa în serios, pentru că par să creadă cu adevărat în realitate.
    Pentru că le interesează cu adevărat cine cu cine s-a mai cuplat dintre vedetele de televiziune.
    Pentru că ţin minte numele actriţelor şi actorilor din filme, chiar ale celor mai obscuri.
    Pentru că dacă nu e supus nici unei hormonizări embrionul se dezvoltă întotdeauna într-o femeie.
    Pentru că nu se gândesc cum să i-o tragă tipului drăguţ pe care-l văd în troleibuz.
    Pentru că beau porcării ca Martini Orange, Gin Tonic sau Vanilia Coke.
    Pentru că nu-ţi pun mâna pe fund decât în reclame.
    Pentru că nu le excită ideea de viol decât în mintea bărbaţilor.
    Pentru că sunt blonde, brune, roşcate, dulci, futeşe, calde, drăgălaşe, pentru că au de fiecare dată orgasm. Pentru că dacă n-au orgasm nu îl mimează.
    Pentru că momentul cel mai frumos al zilei e cafeaua de dimineaţă, când timp de o oră ronţăiţi biscuiţi şi puneţi ziua la cale.
    Pentru că sunt femei, pentru că nu sunt bărbaţi, nici altceva.
    Pentru că din ele-am ieşit şi-n ele ne-ntoarcem, şi mintea noastră se roteşte ca o planetă greoaie, mereu şi mereu, numai în jurul lor.”
    Mircea Cărtărescu, De ce iubim femeile

  • #22
    Gillian Flynn
    “Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

    Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #23
    Margaret Atwood
    “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

  • #24
    Margaret Atwood
    “But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #25
    Margaret Atwood
    “We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #26
    Carrie Fisher
    “One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness and functioning at all, it's something to be proud of, not ashamed of.
    They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication.”
    Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

  • #27
    Esther Perel
    “It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.”
    Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence

  • #28
    Esther Perel
    “Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.”
    Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

  • #29
    Esther Perel
    “Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.”
    Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

  • #30
    Camil Petrescu
    “O îmbrăţişare adevărată a corpurilor e frumoasă ca o convorbire între două inteligenţe, în care nici un moment una nu pierde înţelegerea cu cealaltă, sau ca o carte citită cu pasiune, în care fiecare amănunt e priceput şi justificat.”
    Camil Petrescu, Patul lui Procust



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