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  • #1
    W.B. Yeats
    “Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.”
    William Butler Yeats

  • #2
    Charles Bukowski
    “there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
    human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it
    and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace”
    charles bukowski

  • #3
    Charles Bukowski
    “Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    Markus Herz

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

  • #12
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    Benjamin Franklin Wade

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Calvin Trillin
    “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
    Calvin Trillin

  • #15
    Tom Robbins
    “Who knows how to make love stay?

    1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if loves stays, it can have half. It will stay.

    2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a moustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.

    3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #16
    Tom Robbins
    “...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....”
    Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

  • #17
    Tom Robbins
    “Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.”
    Tom Robbins

  • #18
    Tom Robbins
    “We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #19
    Tom Robbins
    “Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #20
    Tom Robbins
    “There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #21
    Tom Robbins
    “What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.”
    Tom Robbins

  • #22
    Tom Robbins
    “A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #23
    Herman Melville
    “Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.”
    Herman Melville, Moby Dick

  • #24
    Herman Melville
    “I would prefer not to.”
    Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

  • #25
    Billy Collins
    Introduction to Poetry

    I ask them to take a poem
    and hold it up to the light
    like a color slide

    or press an ear against its hive.

    I say drop a mouse into a poem
    and watch him probe his way out,

    or walk inside the poem's room
    and feel the walls for a light switch.

    I want them to waterski
    across the surface of a poem
    waving at the author's name on the shore.

    But all they want to do
    is tie the poem to a chair with rope
    and torture a confession out of it.

    They begin beating it with a hose
    to find out what it really means.”
    Billy Collins, The Apple that Astonished Paris

  • #26
    Billy Collins
    “One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.”
    Billy Collins

  • #27
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Tolle, lege: take up and read.”
    St. Augustine, Confessions

  • #28
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
    St. Augustine

  • #29
    “I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die”
    M.T., A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs

  • #30
    Ken Kesey
    “Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.”
    Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest



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