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  • #1
    Ingrid Bergman
    “Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
    Ingrid Bergman

  • #2
    Marie Antoinette
    “But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?”
    Marie Antoinette

  • #4
    Carrie  King
    “Words once uttered, cannot be buttered, so season them all before you speak”
    Carrie King

  • #5
    Frank O'Hara
    “My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”
    Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

  • #6
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #7
    Laura Moriarty
    “One way to remain
    unfinished is to stop.
    the other is to go on.”
    Laura Moriarty

  • #8
    Juliet Cook
    “I once typed 'vagina dentata' into dictionary.com and it asked me, 'Did you mean giant anteater?”
    Juliet Cook

  • #9
    Ginnetta Correli
    “Father son oily ghost amen.”
    Ginnetta Correli

  • #10
    Ed Wood
    “You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!”
    Ed Wood

  • #11
    Kathy Acker
    “...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...”
    Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates

  • #12
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “It never got weird enough for me.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #13
    Frank O'Hara
    “After the first glass of vodka
    you can accept just about anything
    of life even your own mysteriousness
    you think it is nice that a box
    of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden
    for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?”
    Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

  • #14
    Christopher Hampton
    “The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.”
    Christopher Hampton, Total Eclipse

  • #15
    Quentin Crisp
    “Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?”
    Quentin Crisp

  • #16
    Else Lasker-Schüler
    “A true poet does not say 'azure'; a true poet says 'blue.”
    Else Lasker-Schüler

  • #17
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    Plato

  • #18
    Richard Brautigan
    “I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.”
    Richard Brautigan

  • #19
    Jenny Holzer
    “SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.”
    Jenny Holzer

  • #20
    Haruki Murakami
    “You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value."--Nimit in "Thailand”
    Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

  • #21
    John   Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    John Waters

  • #22
    Charles Bukowski
    “Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #23
    Franz Kafka
    “A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #24
    James Joyce
    “You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
    James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man



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