January 2012
119 posts
December 2011
59 posts
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an...”
– Lemony Snicket (via katyjean)
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom...”
– Anaïs Nin (via creativedreadhead)
“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and...”
– Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (via slekes)
“If you want to know who protects you from the people that take without asking,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via slaughterhousefive)
“Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it...”
– Nicholas Sparks, Dear John (via infinitives)
“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without...”
– Franz Kafka (via blua)
“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via infinitives)
“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that...”
– J. K. Rowling (via tresperdu)
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via causeaneffect)
“They’ve promised us that dreams come true - but forgot that nightmares are...”
– Oscar Wilde (via illusies)
“Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” (via cultureofresistance)
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“You’re antagonistic to the idea of being robbed, exploited, degraded,...”
– Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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“You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don’t like bigots,...”
– Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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“Our goal should be to re-enchant and celebrate our own humanity rather than turn...”
– Craig O’Hara, The Philosophy of Punk
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“Anyone really interested in peace should reject patriotism and understand that...”
– Craig O’Hara, The Philosophy of Punk
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“In a capitalist society the definition of success has been written in terms of...”
– Craig O’Hara, The Philosophy of Punk
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“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Punctuality is the thief of time.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“The best works of art are the expression of man’s struggle to free himself...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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“We are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may...”
– Albert Camus, The Plague
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“It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth- in other...”
– Albert Camus, The Plague
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“Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we...”
– Albert Camus, The Plague
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“It’s because we’re so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via slekes)
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“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The...”
– Jack Kerouac (via s0nata)
“When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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“Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and you’re...”
– Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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“Stupid people are dangerous.”
– Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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“Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes....”
– Jon Krakauer, Into The Wild
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“Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the...”
– V For Vendetta
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“No matter how much pain or grief the heart and mind might bear, the stomach...”
– V For Vendetta
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“…how grave the contrast between this public image of familial sanctity and...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man
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“In the forest there is only truth to be found- no lies, no shams, no illusions,...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man
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“The pathway to wisdom lies through excess.”
– William Blake
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“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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“That is the secret of happiness and virtue- liking what you’ve got to do. ...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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“If you cannot recall something immediately, it probably is not worth...”
– John Gardner, GoldenEye
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“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-house Five
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“People aren’t supposed to look back. All moments, past, present, and...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-house Five
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“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.”
– George Orwell, Animal Farm
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“Remove man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is...”
– George Orwell, Animal Farm