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“به تصویر درختی
كه در حوض
زیر یخ زندانی ست،
چه بگویم؟”
― بیژن الهی

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“دوستت دارم
بلند تر از همیشه
از آن بلند ها
که نمی توانی از این گوش بشنوی و از آن گوش...

دوستت دارم
سیاه تر از همیشه
از آن سیاه ها
که زیر چشمم ام می ریزد
که نمی توانی بلد نیستی پاک شان کنی

دوستت دارم اسب‌تر،خرتر،شتر تر از همیشه
از آن شتر ها
که عاقبت پشت در اتاقت می نشیند
نمی توانی بلند شان کنی

دوستت دارم
از آن دوستت دارم ها
که نمی دانی
که نمی توانی
که بلد نیستی...”
― باهار افسری

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.”
― Anaïs Nin

“What, in the end, makes advertisements superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon says—but the fiery pool reflecting it in the asphalt.”
― Walter Benjamin, One Way Street And Other Writings

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes to us without being already shot through with explanation. In other words, by now almost nothing that happens benefits storytelling; almost everything benefits information. Actually, it is half the art of storytelling to keep a story free from explanation as one reproduces it. . . . The most extraordinary things, marvelous things, are related with the greatest accuracy, but the psychological connection of the event is not forced on the reader. It is left up to him to interpret things the way he understands them, and thus the narrative achieves an amplitude that information lacks.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!”
― Anais Nin

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“هنوز از اتاق همینگوی بوی باروت میاد
هنوز هم ادکلن مرلین مونرو نیمه تمام مانده
و پیرزنان به وقت گذشتن از کف آخرین اتاق مایاکوفسکی دامن خود را جمع می کنند
یکی می آید به زور
یکی می رود به انتخاب”
― حسین پناهی

“When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at the giver.”
― Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, The Masnavi, Book Two

“ای آمده از عالم روحانی تفت
حیران شده در چهار و پنج و شش و هفت
می خور چو ندانی ز کجا آمده ای
خوش باش ندانی به کجا خواهی رفت”
― Omar Khayam, رباعيات خيام

“I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.”
― Walt Whitman

“I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.”
― George Burns

“And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be
like barbed wire to keep out despair,
hope must be a mine field.”
― Yehuda Amichai

“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”
― Frank Capra

“But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.”
― Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater

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

“Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face”
― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

“As to my mouth, of all my features, I wish I could possess my mouth again, just as it had been before the fire. I had my mother’s lips, generous below and above; and what kissing I had practiced, mainly on my hand or on a lonely pig, had convinced me that my lips would be the source of my good fortune. I would kiss with them, and lie with them, I would make victims and willing slaves of anyone my eyes desired, simply by talking a little, and following the talk with kisses, and the kisses with demands. And they’d melt into compliance, everyone of them, happy to perform the most demeaning acts as long as I was there to reward them with a long, tongue-tied kiss when they were done. But the fire didn’t spare my lips; it took them too, erasing them utterly.”
― Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“I am the sunrise of sunsets, and I make love like noon at midnight.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title