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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage.”
― Celine

“[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.”
― Courtney Love

“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim ,and now decency and good behavior weary me.”
― Frida Kahlo

“When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee."

[Isaiah 43:2]”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it.
Psalms, 55:12”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

“LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”
― Henry Miller

“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“it's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends in his holy name.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.”
― J. Paul Getty

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill