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“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes