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March 31 - "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us." -- Paul Valery
March 30 - "There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." -- W. Somerset Maugham
March 29 - "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." -- Groucho Marx
March 28 - "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." -- Steven Wright
March 27 - "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." -- James M. Barrie
March 26 - "Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5." -- Roseanne Barr
March 25 - "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends." -- Homer
March 24 - "To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady." -- Wilson Mizner
March 23 - "Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature." -- Samuel Butler
March 22 - "The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." -- Arthur Koestler
March 21 - "There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey." -- John Ruskin
March 20 - "It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great." -- Henry Havelock Ellis
March 19 - "I devoutly believe that words ought to be weapons. That is why I got into this business in the first place. I don't seek the title of 'inoffensive,' which I think is one of the nastiest things that could be said about an individual writer." -- Christopher Hitchens
March 18 - "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. " -- Charles M. Schulz
March 17 - "Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings." -- Laurence J. Peter
March 16 - "Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address." -- Lane Olinghouse
March 15 - "Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event." -- Oscar Wilde
March 14 - "Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event." -- Oscar Wilde
March 13 - "At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?" -- Jules Feiffer
March 12 - "Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head." -- Ambrose Bierce
March 11 - "California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange." -- Fred Allen
March 10 - "I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness." -- James Thurber
March 9 - "When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own." -- Real Live Preacher
Marach 8 - "I hope you hate it, I hope it gives you herpes!" -- Danny Masterson
March 7 - "It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value." -- Arthur C. Clarke
March 6 - "I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed." -- James Thurber
March 5 - "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." -- Francois Sagan
March 4 - "So is it better to tell and hurt, or lie to save their face?/Well I guess the answer is don't do it in the first place." -- Missy Higgins, "The Special Two"
March 3 - "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." -- R. Buckminster Fuller
March 2 - "He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed." -- Saki
March 1 - "It's demeaning when people talk about my looks. I think I usually look like shit, and most people would agree." -- Johnny Depp
February 28 - "Some days, even wearing my lucky rocketship underwear doesn't help." -- Calvin and Hobbes
February 27 - "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." -- Danny Kaye
February 26 - "Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies." -- Gene Hill
February 25 - "You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work." -- Susannah Clark
February 24 - "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." -- Oscar Wilde
February 23 - "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." -- Albert Schweitzer
February 22 - "I have resolved that if you are afraid of love your heart will break anyway. Only in not half so nice a fashion as when you let somebody love you." -- Ann Rinaldi
February 21 - "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." -- Gilda Radner
February 20 - "At times our lives seem like that of a tranquil island in a sea of chaos. The battle is to keep this sea of chaos at bay and not let it wash us away into utter chaos." -- Sanjeeva Ananthan
February 12 - "Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food." -- Unknown
February 11 - "There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." -– Colette
February 10 - "You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me." -- Scott Adams
February 9 - "Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it." -- George Bernard Shaw
February 8 - "It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." -- Agatha Christie
February 7 - "Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions, and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch." -- Dave James
February 6 - "Why be annoying, when with a little bit of effort, you can be completely impossible?" -- Carsten Dahlgaard
February 5 - "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of ibrary." -- Jorge Luis Borges
February 4 - "Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms." --Alan Corenk
February 3 - "I like to think of the dole as one long arts grant." -- Evan Wylde
February 2 - "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." -- Colette
February 1 - "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
January 31 - "The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting." -- Amanda Cross
January 30 - "Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold." -- Alice Hoffman
January 29 - "I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots." -- David Rakoff
January 28 - "And while I'm thinking about it, why exactly do frat boys call themselves Greeks? Is it because ancient Athenians considered the highest form of love to be that between a young boy and a grown man? Help me out here, guys. I'm confused." -- Martin Beckerman
January 27 - "I've learned- that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do, is stalk them and hope they panic and give in."
January 26 - "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." -- Jean-Paul Sartre
January 25 - "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" -- Clive Staples Lewis
January 23 - "People of the world are so imbued with their own stupidity that they can never believe that one of their own has talent. They appreciate only people of letters who are not of their world." -- Marcel Proust
January 22 - "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." -- Dick Cavett
January 21 - "Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain." -- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
January 20 - "Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies." -- Jim Morrison
January 19 - "One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided whenever possible." -- Sir Winston Churchill
January 18 - "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
January 17 - "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." -- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
January 16 - "An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh." -- Will Rogers
January 14 - "Anyone who behaves obscenely, even if only in literary description, reveals himself as a mixture of human being and sex-object. Which is, by the way, part of the fun." -- Christian Enzensberger
January 13 - "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." -- E. L. Doctorow
January 12 - "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." -- James Barrie
January 11 - "Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, 'I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.'" -- Maya Angelou
January 10 - "I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation." -- James Hilton
January 9 - "There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters?" -- Leo Buscaglia
January 8 - "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
January 7 - "The fox knows many small things, whereas the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ronald Reagan was neither a fox nor a hedgehog. He was as dumb as a stump." -- Christopher Hitchens
January 6 - "Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward." -- Hunter S. Thompson
January 5 - "Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted." -- E. Jean Carroll
January 4 - "Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications." -- Fran Lebowitz
January 3 - "All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." -- George Orwell
January 2 - "The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity." -- George Bernard Shaw
January 1 - "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere." -- Beck Hansen

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