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“One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“Time is the enemy of identity”
― Michael Moorcock

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander

“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days

“You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
― Hubert H. Humphrey

“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.”
― Michael Moorcock

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon