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#1

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
― Nick Hornby

tags: films, music, relationships

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#2

“I like my relationships like I like my eggs. Over easy.”
― Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

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#3

“An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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#4

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: 9-11, 9-11-01, 99-percent, atheism, evangelicalism, fox-news, future-prediction, globalism, media, media-barons, media-of-the-united-states, mysticism, nostradamus, occupy-wall-street, outsourcing, prediction, predictions, proud-ignorance, reality-tv, reason, rupert-murdoch

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#5

“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: beatitudes, paraphrased

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#6

“Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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#7

“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: cynics, humor, life, romantics, writing

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#8

“But boy, I really learned a lot from this one. One of the things I learned is that when someone says "I really learned a lot," what they mean is "Holy shit, did that ever hurt.”
― Mishka Shubaly, Are You Lonesome Tonight?

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#9

“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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#10

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: dream, imagination, reality, war

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#11

“Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.”
― James Dean

tags: cars

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#12

“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

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#13

“We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended.”
― Moffat Machingura, How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye

tags: choice, choose, offend, offended, offense, respond, responsibility

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#14

“It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

tags: art, artistic, artistic-endeavor, artistic-expression, artistic-freedom, artistic-substance, offence, offend, offense, offensive, risk

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#15

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
― Stephen Fry

tags: censorship, free-speech, humor, libel, offense, philosophical, politics, sarcasm, slander, wisdom

863 likes

#16

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl.”
― Shirley Chisholm

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#17

“You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: lord-of-the-rings, sexism, tolkien

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#18

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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#19

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: introspection, solitude

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#20

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude

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#21

“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

tags: despair, silence, solitude

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#22

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: introspection, retreat, solitude

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#23

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: autumn, fall, solitude

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#24

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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#25

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: freedom, solitude

2256 likes

#26

“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: leisure, solitude

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#27

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Aristotle

tags: solitude

1082 likes

#28

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

7082 likes

#29

“The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.”
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

tags: andrea-gibson, bones, grief, the-madness-vase, trauma

380 likes

#30

“One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity”
― Roddy Doyle, Paula Spencer

tags: 12-steps, alcoholism, recovery

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