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

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.”
― S.E. Hinton, Rumble Fish

“Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever.”
― Brian Wilson

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.”
― Gore Vidal

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

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
― Woody Allen

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
― Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.”
― Kenneth Rexroth

“Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. ”
― Charles Willeford

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
― Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Freidrich Neitzsche

“Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
― Orson Welles

“I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”
― Orson Welles

“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“To live outside the law you must be honest.”
― Bob Dylan

“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
― Sophia Loren

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“I mean, you want the truth as you wanna hear it? I can't do that. You couldn't afford me.”
― Keith Moon