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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. - Edward Teller

“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

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

“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.”
― William Shakespeare

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. - William Butler Yeats

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
― Phyllis Diller

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. - Andy Warhol

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. - Edgar Allan Poe

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave. - Douglas Coupland

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. – Ayn Rand (from her novel “Atlas Shrugged”)

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? - Mark Twain

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

Good men must not obey the laws too well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
- Abraham Lincoln

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. - Bertrand Russell

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. - Black Elk

“True friends are always together in spirit.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. - Stephen King

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

Misfortune was my god. - Arthur Rimbaud

“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C. S. Lewis

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? - Blaise Pascal

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward. - Douglas Coupland

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― T.S. Eliot

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. - Golda Meir