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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “No good deed goes unpunished.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    William Faulkner
    “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
    William Faulkner

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

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    Markus Herz

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    Benjamin Franklin Wade

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Raymond Chandler
    “From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
    Raymond Chandler, The High Window

  • #20
    Raymond Chandler
    “The streets were dark with something more than night.”
    Raymond Chandler

  • #21
    Raymond Chandler
    “California, the department store state.”
    Raymond Chandler

  • #22
    Tom Upton
    “...Life is much simpler if you don’t notice anything....”
    Tom Upton, Just Plain Weird

  • #23
    Ed Lynskey
    “I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd use the matches to light our spliffs. My fingertips tapped the stem to the gizmo that dinged a bell. Nobody came out. Wrong signal, so I did two bell rings. No response prompted me to tap out a series of bell rings.”
    Ed Lynskey, Lake Charles

  • #24
    Roald Dahl
    “Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
    Roald Dahl, The BFG

  • #25
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #26
    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    Alan Watts

  • #27
    Noam Chomsky
    “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #28
    Mario Andretti
    “If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.”
    Mario Andretti

  • #29
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #30
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    Socrates



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