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- Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
- ...free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
- Tamora Pierce, Alanna The First Adventure
- Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.
- Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
- The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797), Letter to Sir David Dalrymple, 1770
- If you do a good job for others,
you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
- There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love
- Laws are silent in times of war.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- If you aren’t going to say something directly to someone’s face, than don’t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation.
- Mena Trott, Times Online, 12-06-06
- The notion of picking one time of year to be decent to other people is obscene because it's actually validating the notion of being miserable wretches the rest of the year.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
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