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- We just had a near-life experience!
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
- It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.
- Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries, June 2006
- Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps on it.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
- Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
- O. Henry (1862 - 1910)
- Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.
- Jackie Gleason (1916 - 1987)
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