"Life. It's a strange gift and I don't know how we're supposed to use it but I know it's the only gift we get and it's a good one."
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"Life. It's a strange gift and I don't know how we're supposed to use it but I know it's the only gift we get and it's a good one."
Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all licked our bones. That's why when we ponder--as sooner of later each of us must--exactly what we ought to be doing about our soul, religion is the wrong if conventional, place to turn. Religion is little more than a transaction in which troubled people trade thier souls for temporary and wholly illusionary psychological comfort--the old give-it-up-in-order-to-save-it routine. Religions lead us to beleive that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in thier vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken.
Villa Incognito~Tom Robbins
I really appreciate all the quotes, its really fun to read. I don't remember any quote but I know quoted by Shakespeare "Nothing is impossible it is you who make it so."
But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind ...
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'It is nonsense to talk about injuring no one but yourself; it is impossible to injure yourself ... without injuring hundreds, if not thousands, besides, in a greater or less degree, either by the evil you do or the good you leave undone.'
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
The love of battle is the food upon which we live - the dust of the melee is breath of our nostrils! We live not - we wish not to live - longer than while we are victorious and renowned.
You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.-Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Doc got back to the beach just at early evening, coming up the back slope of the dunes and over, to a hazy view of bay and headlands, a pure sunset of the colors steel takes on as it heats to glowing, lights of airliners, some blinking and some steady, ascending silently from the airport in short clears curves before setting out to traverse the sky, sometimes finding brief conjunction with an early start, then moving on...He decided to stop in at the office, as he was letting himself in, the phone started ringing, quietly, as if to itself."
(Wow)
--Thomas Pynchon, "Inherent Vice"
"It's all over, so let's not burden the telegraph system."
The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress!
"It takes ten Times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."
-Mockingjay; Finnick Odair.
An interesting one from Camus:
"But too many people now scale the cross merely to be seen from a distance, even if they have to trample him who has been there so long in the process. Too many people have decided to dispense with generosity in order to practice charity. Oh, the injustice, the injustice that has been done him, it rends my heart."
Albert Camus, The Fall
'Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.'
Yossarian knew what he meant.
'That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back. 'I'm talking about co-operation. Favors. You do a favor for me, I'll do one for you. Get it?'
'Do one for me,' Yossarian requested.
'Not a chance,' Doc Daneeka answered.
"I will work harder!"
"Napoleon is always right."
(George Orwell, Animal Farm)
'The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.'
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'If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. '