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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    “When I die I want them to play the BLACK AND CRAZY BLUES, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it. ∞”
    Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  • #3
    John Lennon
    “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
    John Lennon

  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my lids and all is born again.
    (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #5
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Richard Price
    “You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
    Richard Price

  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #11
    “Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.”
    Aardvark Magazine

  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #13
    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #14
    Janis Ian
    “The heart of a city
    Is the soul of a man
    It winds like a river
    Through the heart of the land
    They can tear down a building
    They can tear down a park
    They can strike at a symbol
    But they can't strike the heart”
    janis ian

  • #15
    Janis Ian
    “So remember those who win the game
    Lose the love they sought to gain
    In debitures of quality and dubious integrity
    Their small-town eyes will gape at you
    In dull surprise when payment due
    Exceeds accounts received at seventeen”
    Janis Ian

  • #16
    Margaret Atwood
    “I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

  • #17
    Abraham Lincoln
    “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
    Abraham Lincoln, Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton



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