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We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important... Morrie Schwartz
Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father."Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have. Madeleine L'Engle
I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals. Charles M. Schulz
Alan Bennett quote: "Still, for all that everybody, while not happy, is not unhappy..."
Still, for all that everybody, while not happy, is not unhappy about it. And so they go on. Alan Bennett
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Straight ahead you can't go very far."
Straight ahead you can't go very far. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
R. Buckminster Fuller quote: "...primarily the individual is going to study at home."
...primarily the individual is going to study at home. R. Buckminster Fuller
This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and stars are magnified in this room. The sun hangs over the mantelpiece. I stretch out my hand and reach the corners of the world. The world is bundled up in this room. Beyond the door, where the river is, where the roads are, we shall be. We can take the world with us when we go and sling the sun under your arm. Hurry now, it's getting late. I don't know if this is... Jeanette Winterson
One thing I’ve learned about myself over the years is that I’m no good at dealing with people dying. It’s not that I’m afraid of it – I know that everyone’s gotta go eventually – but I can’t help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many f**ked-up ways of leaving it. Ozzy Osbourne
Joan Didion quote: "Let me just be in the ground. Let me just be in the ground and..."
Let me just be in the ground. Let me just be in the ground and go to sleep. Joan Didion
Nicolas Chamfort quote: "Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never..."
Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we'd be happy if we did? Nicolas Chamfort
Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was? Anne Rice
You don't smoke do you?"No, why?"They're afraid of fire."Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disguste? Laurell K. Hamilton
She was seeing the brand of pain and fear on the faces of people, and the look of evasion that refuses to know it–they seemed to be going through the motions of some enormous pretense, acting out a ritual to ward off reality, letting the earth remain unseen and their lives unlived, in dread of something namelessly forbidden–yet the forbidden was the simple act of looking at the nature of their pain and questioning their duty to bear it. Ayn Rand
I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on."Babes," he told her. "You're dead."That's one of those aspects, obviously. Neil Gaiman
the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings. David Foster Wallace

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