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"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."
— Quentin Crisp, Writer / Raconteur
"I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert."
— Demetri Martin, Crappy Comedian
"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
— James Thurber, The New Yorker
"...don't you complicate your mind: Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy!
Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality..."
— Robert Nesta Marley, Wake Up and Live
“May we bore you with the details of last nights dream?”
— Johanna Hyman, When the Vegans Came to Dinner
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether."
— Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician / Philosopher
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