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“Your house is lovely,” I say, even though it isn’t. It’s old; it could use a good cleaning. But the things inside it are lovely.
“It’s empty now. All my things sold up. Can’t take it with you, you know.”
“You mean when you die?” I whisper.
He glares at me. “No. I mean to the nursing home.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Ticket That Exploded

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!”
― Kari Byron

“It was time for me to throw out my expectations and my baggage, but, most importantly, my assumptions. About myself, about life, and about who can and can't have the career of their dreams. I searched my mind for a mantra. At the top of the list was the all-purpose powerhouse: "Why not?”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“Life is short: surrender your dignity.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
― Oscar Wilde

“She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality.”
― Ariana Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death

“Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut, das wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
― Henry Ford

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Everything lost is meant to be found.”
― Lara Croft

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
― Thomas Szasz

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“Gentlemen you had my curiosity ... but now you have my attention.”
― Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained