Jake > Jake's Quotes

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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

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

“I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.”
― Richard Yates

“The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.”
― Milan Kundera

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”
― Bob Dylan

“Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.”
― Bob Dylan

“...in this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking...”
― Bob Dylan

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.”
― Larry McMurtry

“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”
― Tom Waits

“Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.”
― tom waits

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet