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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Insanity is catching.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Making Money
    tags: insanity
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    Salvador Dalí
    “The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: insanity, sanity
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    Franz Kafka
    “All language is but a poor translation.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Woody Allen
    “It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: absurd
    930 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “I can't fight.
    I was once run over by a car with a flat tire, being pushed by two guys.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: absurd
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    Woody Allen
    “Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.”
    ― Woody Allen, Manhattan
    tags: absurd, self-esteem
    120 likes

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    George Carlin
    “One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.”
    ― George Carlin
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    George Carlin
    “I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.”
    ― George Carlin
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    Steven Wright
    “If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: absurd, humor
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    Tom Waits
    “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
    ― Tom Waits
    tags: music, power-of-music
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    Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage. ”
    ― Henri Matisse
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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    Pablo Picasso
    “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, creativity
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    Tom Waits
    “I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
    ― Tom Waits
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    George Harrison
    “It's all in the mind.”
    ― George Harrison
    tags: beatles, mind, perception, psychology
    617 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment
    5563 likes

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    Slavoj Žižek
    “Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek
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    David James Duncan
    “We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence. ”
    ― David James Duncan
    tags: reflective
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    Meg Rosoff
    “I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?”
    ― Meg Rosoff
    tags: dog, imaginary
    18 likes

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    Augusten Burroughs
    “Augusten very distant tonight. Probably because of my games.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at the Table
    tags: sick
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    Diane Setterfield
    “A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
    tags: books, fiction, on-fiction, stories, writing
    395 likes

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    Samuel Beckett
    “I can't go on, I'll go on.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
    tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy
    725 likes

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    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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    Neil Gaiman
    “They might be dirty, and cheap, and their food might taste like shit, but at least they didn’t speak in clichés”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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    Mae West
    “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
    ― Mae West
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    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: attributed-no-source, courage
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    “Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.”
    ― Jay Bylsma
    tags: alcohol, drinking, ignorance, simile
    137 likes

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    Bernard Berenson
    “Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
    ― Bernard Berenson
    tags: consistency, development, growth, ignorance, nuance
    66 likes



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