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State Quotes (page 47)

I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death - a state which I feared yet did not understand. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game -it was corpse fucking corpse. Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience down through the centuries. Some morals tended to keep people slaves in... Charles Bukowski
I have hitched and hiked over every state and half the nations, through blizzards and under rainbows, in deserts and cities, backward and side-ways, upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber. Tom Robbins
In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword. Fannie Flagg
no biography of his existed in German even though sales of his books were rising in Germany as well as the rest of Europe and even in the United States, which likes vanished writers (vanished writers or millionaire writers) or the legend of vanished writer? Roberto Bolano
How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy. Christopher Isherwood
It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whole lifetime. Jeanette Winterson
The bright image projections of the Sophoclean hero--in short, the Apollinian aspect of the mask--are necessary effects of a glance into the inside and terrors of nature; as it were, luminous spots to cure eyes damaged by gruesome night. Only in this sense may we believe that we properly comprehend the serious and important concept of "Greek cheerfulness." The misunderstanding of this concept as cheerfulness in a state of unendangered comfort is, of course, encountered everywhere today. Friedrich Nietzsche
the people of the united states were...spoiled children, who are begging for a frightening but just daddy to tell them exactly what to do Kurt Vonnegut
Joyce Brothers quote: "Succes is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking..."
Succes is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. Joyce Brothers
Anne Rice quote: "Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?"
Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul? Anne Rice
Antonin Artaud quote: "In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin..."
In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds. Antonin Artaud
Ronald Reagan quote: "Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for..."
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. Ronald Reagan
Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went off to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean... Sarah Vowell
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question. Sigmund Freud

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