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When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and... David Hume
We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back. Bono
A person should be buried only half a meter, or two feet, below the surface. Then a tree should be planted there. He should be buried in a coffin that decays so that when you plant a tree on top the tree will take something out of his substance and change it into tree-substance. When you visit the grave you don’t visit a dead man, you visit a living being who was just transformed into a tree. You say, “This is my grandfather, the tree is growing well, fantastic.” You can develop a beautiful... Friedensreich Hundertwasser
You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing. Roger Kahn
In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, though each individual idea, expressed separately in words, loses its meaning, is horribly debased when only one of the links, of which it forms a part, is taken by itself. But the interlinking of these ideas is not, I think, an intellectual process, but something else, and it is impossible to express the source of this interlinking directly in... Leo Tolstoy
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote: "You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer...."
You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Novalis quote: "One can not understand language because language cannot..."
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand Novalis
Isaac Babel quote: "No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put..."
No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. Isaac Babel
William S. Burroughs quote: "Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try..."
Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse. William S. Burroughs
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day. C. S. Lewis
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and..."
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away. Chuck Palahniuk
I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrence risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. and: No one can stop the river of your hands, your eyes and their sleepiness, my dearest. You are the trembling of time, which passes between the vertical light and the darkening sky. and: From the stormy archipelagoes I brought my windy accordian, waves of crazy rain, the habitual slowness of natural things:... Pablo Neruda
Emily Giffin quote: "You can love someone you mistrust."
You can love someone you mistrust. Emily Giffin
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. Abraham Lincoln
When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that? Kurt Vonnegut

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