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“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski

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“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
― Philip K. Dick

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“the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat”
― William Faulkner

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“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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“Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

tags: entropy, rebel, rebellion, revolution

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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: rah

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#7

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
― Lawrence Clark Powell

tags: communication

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#9

“Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: buddhism, flies, zen

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#10

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: paraphrased

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#11

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: inspirational

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#12

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

tags: books, humor

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#13

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#14

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

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#15

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

tags: books, library

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#16

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#17

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#18

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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#19

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#20

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: afterlife, atheism, humanism, secularism

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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

tags: action, community, daring, loneliness, purpose, youth

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#22

“Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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#23

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#24

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

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#25

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: death, scars, tyler-durden

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#26

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, reading, truth

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#27

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, inspirational

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

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#29

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: own, things

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#30

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

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