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“I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
― Chuck Norris

“Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
― Will Rogers

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.”
― Greg Gutfeld, The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage

“Do you know what it’s called when you hate something you know nothing about? It’s called prejudice.”
― Heather Munn, How Huge the Night

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
― Mother Theresa of Calcutta

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God, say nothing about right or wrong, good or bad. To admit this would force philosophers to confront the possibility that the physical sciences offer a grossly inadequate view of reality. And since philosophers very much wish to think of themselves as scientists, this would offer them an unattractive choice between changing their allegiances or accepting their irrelevance.”
― David Berlinski, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions

“Dear Editor: It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check. ”
― Erle Stanley Gardner

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou

“Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
― Alan Dean Foster

“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

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“This is the last and most astounding fact about this faith; that its enemies will use any weapon against it, the swords that cut their own fingers, and the firebrands that burn their own homes. Men who begin to fight the Church for the sake of freedom and humanity end by flinging away freedom and humanity if only they may fight the Church.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“I could not ignore their withering glances. They looked at me the way real vampires look at Count Chocula.”
― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story

“Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before death is what counts.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations