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I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination. You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to... Alan Moore
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know. By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought. Than to love and be loved by me Edgar Allan Poe
A British traveler remarked, 'There are [fashions in Guatemala] which it would require more than common charity to speak of with respect...'" FILL IN YOUR OWN GRIPES! ;-) Paul Theroux
You should be a billionaire, Randy. Thank god you're not."Why do you say that?"Oh, because then you'd be a highly intelligent man who never has to make difficult choices - who never has to exert his mind. It is a state much worse than being a moron. Neal Stephenson
The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans. Eleanor Roosevelt
They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer. Terry Prachett
Haruki Murakami quote: "Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely...."
Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life. Haruki Murakami
They were little more than boys, and yet while they differed in race, in temperament, and in their understanding of love, they were united in this: The remnant of their boyhood was a ballast they wished to cut away. Michael Chabon
Mark Twain quote: "It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than..."
It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt Mark Twain
Plato quote: "You should not honor men more than truth."
You should not honor men more than truth. Plato
Christopher Hitchens quote: "If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies..."
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. Christopher Hitchens
Alison Bechdel quote: "If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel..."
If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust. Alison Bechdel
In the dewy wood tinselled with bewildering moonlight, the bumbling, tumbling babies of the fairy creche trip over the hem of her dress, which is no more nor less than the margin of the wood itself; they stumble in the tangled grass as they play with the coneys, the quick brown fox-cubs, the russet fieldmice and the wee scraps of grey voles, blind velvet Mole and striped Brock with his questing snout - all the denizens of the woodland are her embroiderings, and the birds flutter round her... Angela Carter
I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq mess (the short answer appeared to have W for a middle initial and a dick for a Vice President). Stephen King
I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite. Alan Moore

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