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Paulo Coelho quote: "Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being..."
Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Paulo Coelho
That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention. T. S. Eliot
April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts. Barbara Kingsolver
The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a... Terry Prachett
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "The function of the artist is to make people like life better..."
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. Kurt Vonnegut
William Penn quote: "Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by..."
Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn
I talked to my little brother, Jeb -- I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of -- I shouldn't call him my little brother -- my brother, Jeb, the great Governor of Texas. George W. Bush
Russell Banks quote: "Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the..."
Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most. Russell Banks
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!"
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading! Rainer Maria Rilke
But he does insist on a conversation. Goddamn it! Why can't people just do what I want them to do and be gone? It's a worldwide conspiracy to make me be polite when I don't want to be. Elizabeth Wurtzel
To all accusations of excessive development the administrators can reply, as they will if pressed hard enough, that they are giving the public what it wants, that their primary duty is to serve the public not preserve the wilds. "Parks are for people" is the public relations slogan, which decoded means that the parks are for people-in-automobiles. Behind the slogan is the assumption that the majority of Americans, exactly like the managers of the tourist industry, expect and demand to see... Edward Abbey
I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense,... Franz Kafka
I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it? and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die? I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there. E. M. Forster
From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations. Evelyn Waugh
Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen Kinky Friedman

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