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It is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon. - Tom Wolfe (from his book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test)
“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
― C. S. Lewis
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee. - Edgar Allan Poe
Ive seen and done to damn much for one man. Im stained with awareness. To be frank, i shoulden't care as much as I do, but theres somthing about people, that I can't help but admire. - Captain Hunt
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps. - Horatio Nelson
“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. - Miguel de Unamuno
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
― Maya Angelou
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote
“I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. - Daniel J. Boorstin
“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. - E. M. Forster
“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”
-Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama
“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
― Bill Watterson
I am determined to offer an apology with my death. - Hideki Tojo