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William S. Burroughs quote: "Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes..."
Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love. William S. Burroughs
I can't afford to let my judgement be clouded by any feeling that I might have for a human being. You are the only person I've ever cared for in the world, Charley. I shan't rest till I know in my bones that if it were necessary to put you against a wall and shoot you with my own hands I could do it without a moment's hesitation and without a moment's regret. W. Somerset Maugham
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die. J. D. Salinger
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if... Madeleine L'Engle
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his..."
He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest. Kurt Vonnegut
Robert Frost quote: "Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the..."
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world. Robert Frost
Amos Bronson Alcott quote: "The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal..."
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. Amos Bronson Alcott
Your edict, King, was strong, But all your strength is weakness itself against. The immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were, and shall be, Operative for ever, beyond man utterly. I knew I must die, even without your decree: I am only mortal. And if I must die. Now, before it is my time to die, Surely this is no hardship: can anyone. Living, as I live, with evil all about me, Think Death less than a friend? Sophocles
I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back. Woody Allen
The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves. Norbert Wiener
Epictetus say that everything has two handles, one by which it can be borne and one which it cannot. If your brother sins against you, he says, don't take hold of it by the wrong he did you but by the fact that he's your brother. That's how it can be borne. Anne Tyler
You looked so beautiful- your hair spread out around your head against the linoleum. Though your think brown curls had thinned since you'd started losing weight, they still fell in soft waves. You reminded me of a mermaid, your skin all shiny, your lips so full compared to the harshness of your angular cheekbones and pointed chin. Skylar Laine
Paul Feyerabend quote: "The best education consists in immunizing people against..."
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. Paul Feyerabend
When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow. Carl Jung
Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier's paid to kick against His powers. We laughed,? knowing that better men would come, And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags. He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags. Wilfred Owen

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