"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, too dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the hill and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone..." ???
"God, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the tenacity to change what I may, and the good luck not to f**k up too often." Stephen King
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning---- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." F. Scott Fitgerald
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going directly the other way..." Charles Dickens
"Man is in love, and loves what vanishes." Shakespeare
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing." ???
"I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month; it's not bad at all. You heave them into the 'parlor' and turn the switch. It's like washing clothes: stuff laundry in and slam the lid." Ray Bradbury (_Fahrenhiet 451_)
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"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." Mark Twain
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." Emerson
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"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." Orson Welles
"I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me." Chris Rapier
"I simply can't imagine competence as anything save admirable, for it is very rare in this world, and especially in this great Republic, and those who have it in some measure, in any art or craft from adultery to zoology, are the only human beings I can think of who will be worth the oil it will take to fry them in Hell." H.L. Mencken
"Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it." Anonymous
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." Matin Luther King Jr.
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." Henry David Thoreau
"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." Langston Hughes
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements."
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best." Anonymous
"If the world were so organized that everything has to be fair, no living creature could survive for a day. The birds would be forbidden to eat worms, and everyone's self-interest would have to be served."
"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." Mark Twain
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity." George Bernard Shaw
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Albert Einstein
"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few." Benjamin Disreali
"I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me." Mark Twain
"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity." Bill Vaughan
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." Stalin
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." Voltaire
"Is there life before death?" Belfast Graffito
"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives." A.Sachs
"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." Leonardo da Vinci
"I'm not intending to imply insult or judgment here but I am curious to know in order to be able to respond to your posts in an appropriate manner, so please forgive what appears to be, but in fact is not intended as, an insulting question: Are you stupid?" Melinda Shore
"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan." Martin Luther King Jr.
"No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a part of the continent, a piece of the whole...if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. Any man's death diminishes me because I'm involved in mankind. Therefore, never send to know for whom the bell TOLLS, it tolls for thee." John Donne
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." Frank Zappa
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." P.J. O'Rourke
"The stupidity of those in power is surpassed only by the stupidity of those who blindly follow." Emily Sachs
...difference of opinion is advantageious in religion. The several sects perform the office of a common censor morum over each other. Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
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