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#1

“There are laws of hate in the universe, shaping even its loves, and it is time I made them work for me.”
― Fritz Leiber, Swords and Deviltry

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#2

“Any attempt to fix it in place, to say for instance “this is the final word on what Moby Dick means” robs myth of its creativity and turns its ossified corpse into dogma.”
― James Curcio, Narrative Machines: Modern Myth, Revolution, and Propaganda

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#3

“I’m a person who can take on the guises of people I meet. I’m a collector, and I collect personalities and ideas.”
― David Bowie

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#4

“When creativity is frustrated or warped, the effect upon the possessor and the environment can be appalling, because creativity’s flip side is destruction.”
― Julian May, Diamond Mask

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#5

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#6

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: drinking

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#7

“But their discovery of the void brings with it new implications: not only that they must continue on in their actions and diligence, no longer considered as duties but as gratuitous, senseless routines, but also the exhilarating realization that all is nothing but a game.”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini

tags: inspirational

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#8

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

tags: past

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#9

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

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#11

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: grudges

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#11

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

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#12

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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#13

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

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#14

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing

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#15

“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

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#16

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe

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#17

“Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Clean Well-Lighted Place

tags: bar, nada, nothing, prayer

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#18

“Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more.”
― Victoria Erickson

tags: life, motivational, mountains, travel

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#19

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain

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#20

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

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#21

“We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.”
― Francine du Plessix Gray

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#22

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#23

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

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