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#1

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

tags: life, truth

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“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

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“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: atheism, religion

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#4

“There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what they care about, or why, or whom.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, The Different Girl

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#5

“each man braces his fear against his love. What you love may change. But if you love still, your fear remains”
― Gordon Dahlquist

tags: sci-fi-science-fiction

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#6

“Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.”
― Peyton Manning

tags: football, funny, peyton-manning

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#7

“Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.”
― John Fante, The Brotherhood of the Grape

tags: apathy

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#8

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: forgetfulness, forgetting, happiness, memory

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#9

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#10

“That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.”
― Syd Barrett

tags: artist, guitar, kid, music, syd-barrett

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#11

“At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: eleven-minutes, paulo-coelho

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#12

“When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.”
― Brian P. Cleary, You Oughta Know By Now

tags: humor, kids, observational-comedy

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#13

“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#14

“FRACTURED FACTIONS

Many cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots”
― Kamil Ali

tags: ali, cult, dawn, ego, kamil, kamiltheauthor, philosophy, religious, spawn, zealot

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#15

“Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.”
― Vincent Price

tags: cult, horror, icon, victoria-price, vincent-price

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“What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.”
― Spider Robinson, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

tags: shock, surprise, whisky

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#17

“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.”
― Lily Tomlin

tags: funny, goals-in-life, humor, inspirational, wish

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#18

“Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.”
― Lily Tomlin

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#19

“It is always easier to curse in another language than your own!”
― Evan c. currie, Out of the Black

tags: cursing

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#20

“Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: drink, full-moon, luminous, moon, moon-love, moonlight, night, night-time, poetry, poetry-quotes, thirst

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#21

“She is exhausting to everyone.

She would take a break from herself, too, but she doesn't have that option.”
― Lauren Groff, Florida

tags: breaks, exhaustion, friendship, personality

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#22

“It has been eleven days, Stephen, eleven fucking days! Eleven! The presidency is supposed to age the president, not the public.”
― Jon Stewart

tags: exhaustion, trump

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#23

“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
― Jon Stewart

tags: absurd, organized-religion, paradox, religion

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#24

“What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

tags: cat-s-cradle, kurt-vonnegut

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#25

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: apathy, democracy, elections, voting

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#26

“I'm a born librarian with a sex drive”
― David Bowie

tags: david-bowie, librarian

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#27

“An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?”
― David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

tags: conquerors, government, savage

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#28

“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: beethoven, guitar

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#29

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers

tags: particles, physics, quantum, reality, science, strange

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#30

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
― Werner Heisenberg

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