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  • #1
    “Every day is getting worse
    Do the same things and they hurt
    I don't know if I should cry
    All I know is that I'm tryin'
    I wanna believe in you, I wanna believe in you
    So why can't you be, be good to me....”
    Grace Norwich

  • #2
    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    C.E.M. Joad

  • #3
    David Bowie
    “And these children that you spit on
    As they try to change their worlds
    Are immune to your consultations.
    They're quite aware of what they're going through.

    - Changes
    David Bowie

  • #4
    Ani DiFranco
    “and half of learning to play is learning what not to play
    and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say
    and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves
    and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove

    she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home
    and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone

    up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple
    but god's work isn't done by god
    it's done by people”
    Ani DiFranco

  • #5
    Sam Harris
    “Theology is ignorance with wings.”
    Sam Harris

  • #6
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #7
    Anne Rice
    “The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”
    Anne Rice

  • #8
    Celia Rivenbark
    “I really loathe [the bumper sticker] 'Proud Parent of a Terrific Kid!'

    Why not a bumper sticker for the unlucky parents, something like: 'My Fifteen-Year-Old's in Detox and Not Speaking to Any of Us' or 'My Kid Robbed a 7-Eleven and is in a Center for Youthful Offenders.”
    Celia Rivenbark, Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments

  • #9
    Larry David
    “You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people and assholes.”
    Larry David

  • #10
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I remember still how full of bad magic all those spearpoints to be put on the ends of rifles seemed to be. One was like a sharpened curtain rod. Another was triangular in cross-section, so that the wound it made wouldn't close up again and keep the blood and guts from falling out. Another one had sawteeth - so it could work its way through bone, I guess. I can remember thinking that war was so horrible that, at last, thank goodness, nobody could ever be fooled by romantic pictures and fiction and history into marching to war again.

    Nowadays, of course, you can buy a machine gun with a plastic bayonet for your little kid at the nearest toy boutique.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

  • #11
    Marjane Satrapi
    “I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.”
    Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #13
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

  • #14
    Lian Hearn
    “The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.”
    Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor

  • #15
    Lian Hearn
    “I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.”
    Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor

  • #16
    Lian Hearn
    “When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.”
    Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor

  • #17
    Lian Hearn
    “..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.”
    Lian Hearn, Brilliance of the Moon

  • #18
    Lian Hearn
    “Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?”
    Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor

  • #19
    Martha Grimes
    “Before you hate something you should try to understand it.”
    Martha Grimes, Dakota

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Stieg Larsson
    “Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #23
    Stieg Larsson
    “There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

  • #24
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #25
    C.S. Lewis
    “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #27
    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #28
    Gregory Maguire
    “Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #29
    Gregory Maguire
    “In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.”
    Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

  • #30
    Gregory Maguire
    “And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West



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