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“The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime.”
― Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

“Excellence is inconveniently difficult.”
― William H. Gass

“It is as much pity to ſee a woman weep as to ſee a goos go barefoot.”
― William Baldwin, Beware the Cat: The First English Novel

“The text has disappeared under the interpretation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse...”
― Zhuangzi, Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings

“When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.”
― Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and Poems

“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
― Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

“The chronology was for the convenience of the reader who may be unfamiliar with some of the names and events mentioned. My publisher persuaded me to cut it, on account of the wartime paper shortage.”
― William T. Vollmann

“If you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.”
― Zhuangzi

“The unexpected and unpredictable is real.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Indescribably filthy jokes are perpetrated by a ventriloquist with the aid of a puppet.

(Quoted from the Bulletin of The Juvenile Protective Association, May 1921)”
― Frederic Milton Thrasher

“Come back you silly woman I need your credit cards.”
― Meredith Brosnan, Mr. Dynamite

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?”
― Richard Feynmanman

“Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.”
― Heinrich Heine

“In laying out gardens, pavilions, wandering paths, small mountains of stone, and flower paintings, try to give the feeling of the small in the large and the large in the small, of the real in the illusion, and of the illusion in reality. Some things should be hidden and some should be obvious, some prominent and some vague. Arranging a proper garden is not just a matter of setting out winding paths in a broad area with many rocks; thinking that it is will only waste time and energy.”
― Shen Fu, Six Records of a Floating Life

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde