Santiago Restrepo

“I am sick to death of cleverness.  Everybody is clever nowadays.  You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people.  The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But their agony has achieved just this—that now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“You know, I need hardly remind you, it is not numbers or strength that gives victory in war; but, heaven helping them, to one or other of two combatants it is given to dash with stouter hearts to meet the foe, and such onset, in nine cases out of ten, those others refuse to meet.”
― Xenophon, The Persian Expedition

“She patted him on the arm. “You’re fucked up, mister. But you’re cool.” “I believe that’s what they call the human condition,” said Shadow.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods: Tenth Anniversary