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A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy. ~Edward P. Morgan

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. ~G.K. Chesterton

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison

A good book has no ending. ~R.D. Cumming

Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel industry. ~Dave Barry, Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. ~George Carlin

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness. ~Henry David Thoreau

Camping: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower and flush toilet. ~Author Unknown

What I like about camping is you can get really dirty. Either you're all by yourself, so no one else sees you, or everyone you're with is just as dirty as you are, so nobody cares. ~Anonymous former Boy Scout, quoted in Highs! Over 150 Ways to Feel Really, Really Good Without Alcohol or Other Drugs by Alex J. Packer

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. - Sigmund Freud

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely." ~Henry David Thoreau

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. ~Dave Barry

I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because then I tried to walk out and slammed the flap. How are you supposed to express your anger in this situation? Zipper it up really quick? ~Mitch Hedberg

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ~Robert Southey

Good things, when short, are twice as good. ~Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books — what other men do not say in whole books. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ~Thomas Jefferson

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. ~Dennis Roth

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ~Harold Geneen

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~Henry Ford

Business is a combination of war and sport. ~André Maurois

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. ~John Egan

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority. ~William Arthur Ward

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages. ~Henry Ford, 1922, also sometimes quoted as "It is the customer that pays the wages"

Hire character. Train skill. ~Peter Schutz

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. ~Henry David Thoreau

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ~Roman Polanski

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. ~Ralph Richardson

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. ~Alfred Hitchcock

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarre

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ~Alfred Hitchcock

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. - Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. ~Alfred Hitchcock

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. ~Don Marquis

Never judge a book by its movie. ~J.W. Eagan

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. - Blaise Pascal

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. ~Wilson Mizner

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~Jessamyn West

Most horror movies are certainly that. ~Brendan Francis

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. ~Sigmund Freud

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t. ~Lord Raglan

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ~Syrus

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. ~Bryan White

Civilization is hideously fragile... there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ~C.P. Snow

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. ~Author and exact wording unknown, I’ve been told this was quoted by Paul Harvey

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ~Doug Larson

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in. ~Author Unknown

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. ~Author Unknown

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry. ~Author Unknown

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. ~Clifford Stoll

User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot." ~Dave Barry

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. - Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~George Santayana

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. ~Bernard Baruch

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~Dorothy Parker (Thanks, Kaitlin)

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. ~Franklin P. Adams

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~Albert Einstein

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. ~Sudie Back

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. ~S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. - Philip Roth

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. ~Ruth Benedict

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ~Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~Charles F. Kettering

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein

The past can't see you, but the future is listening. ~Terri Guillemets

And in today already walks tomorrow. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic. - Estelle

The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. ~Kongzi

I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging. -Peter O'Toole, on psychoanalysis

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. - Michael Burke

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. - Friedrich Nietzsche

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. - Blaise Pascal

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ~Doug Larson

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Leroy "Satchel" Paige

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. - William Shakespeare

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~Samuel Ullman

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive. -
Allen Ginsberg

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