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  • #1
    Theodore Sturgeon
    “90% of everything is crap.”
    Theodore Sturgeon

  • #2
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #3
    Groucho Marx
    “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

  • #4
    Raymond Carver
    “It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”
    Raymond Carver
    tags: love

  • #5
    Raymond Carver
    Late Fragment

    And did you get what
    you wanted from this life, even so?
    I did.
    And what did you want?
    To call myself beloved, to feel myself
    beloved on the earth.”
    Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall

  • #6
    Raymond Carver
    “there isn't enough of anything
    as long as we live. But at intervals
    a sweetness appears and, given a chance
    prevails.”
    Raymond Carver, Ultramarine: Poems

  • #7
    Raymond Carver
    “It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”
    Raymond Carver

  • #8
    William Gaddis
    “Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
    William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

  • #9
    Theodore Sturgeon
    “Nothing is always absolutely so”
    Theodore Sturgeon
    tags: humor

  • #10
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #11
    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    George Carlin

  • #12
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #13
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #14
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #15
    D. Harlan Wilson
    “Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.”
    D. Harlan Wilson, The Kyoto Man

  • #16
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #17
    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    W.C. Fields

  • #18
    Alan             Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    Alan Moore

  • #19
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

  • #20
    Alan             Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #21
    Theodore Sturgeon
    “Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.”
    Theodore Sturgeon

  • #22
    Woody Allen
    “There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”
    Woody Allen

  • #23
    Richard Hell
    “You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.”
    Richard Hell

  • #24
    William T. Vollmann
    “I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot of appeal to that. It's nice to think of it as this playful kind of thing. But I think that another way to look at it is "Look, I just want to be sincere. I want to write something and make you feel something and maybe you will go out and do something." And it seems that the world is in such bad shape now that we don't have time to do nothing but language games. That's how it seems to me.”
    William T. Vollmann

  • #25
    Emil M. Cioran
    “It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
    Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

  • #26
    Emil M. Cioran
    “If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
    Émile Michel Cioran

  • #27
    Truman Capote
    “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
    Truman Capote, Answered Prayers

  • #28
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

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

  • #29
    Peter De Vries
    “I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
    Peter De Vries

  • #30
    “There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
    Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order



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