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“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“One of the best things about sex with a Banshee, however, is that she will make her needs known freely.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur: A Mythological Dating Guide

“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

“He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.”
― George Carlin

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“People aren’t the apex species they think they are. Other creatures-bigger, smaller, slower, faster, older, younger, more powerful-call the shots, make the air, and eat sunlight. Without them, nothing.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

“We are all the gods and devils, hiding under the human skin.”
― Akshay Vasu

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”
― Bruce Lee

“grabbed handfuls of carrots, celery, and rolled-up ham. Then I dropped my pants and shoved all this stuff up my ass. I looked like a fucking peacock. I must have had a twelve-inch plume of deli tray food coming out of my ass. I turned around and charged at them backward. That’s called a flying ham sandwich—you shove food up your ass and charge somebody. They”
― Al Jourgensen, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen