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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
– John Milton
Roy Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I’ve watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
– Blade Runner
You can take it with you because objects don’t just disappear like some people do, intent to remind and to continue breaking, like china cups fragile hearts
– Gretchen VanOstrand
Stop! let me go back because the sparkling frost covers the yard and now your last stop on Earth is frozen
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
– Thomas Paine
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
Hell is other people.
some people never go crazy. what truly horrible lives they must lead.
– Charles Bukowski
Empire abroad entails tyranny at home
– Hannah Arendt
pound for pound, the best one of the bunch, a fighter, scratcher, pit bull, she can nail ‘em to the floor in one second flat, her body’s beautiful, but her mind’s a work of art, whirling madly, twisting and turning, she’s a REAL woman and she won’t let you forget it
– Scott C. Holstad
I head this man on t.v. saying ‘in order for God to be able to use someone they must first fear God.’ I have also heard that God is in everyone. This must be why so many people scare me.
– Lisa Kucharski
The thing about rights is they're not actually supposed to be voted on. That's why they're called rights.
– Rachel Maddow
I chose an eternity of this, Like falling angels, the world disappeared. Laughing into the fire, is it always like this? Flesh and blood and the first kiss; The first colours, the first kiss.
– Robert Smith, The Cure
I hurt myself today To see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real.
– Trent Reznor
I need my conscience to keep watch over me To protect me from myself So I can wear honesty like a crown on my head When I walk into the promised land
– Brendan Perry
Now fear had begun, a rational response instead of insanity.
– Philip K. Dick
Poets speak truth when no one else can or will. That's why the hunger for poetry grows when the world grows dark. When repression grows, when people speak in whispers or not at all, they turn to poetry to find out what's going on.
– Diane di Prima
You are free, and that is why you are lost.
– Franz Kafka
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
– William S. Burroughs
IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
– Terry Pratchett
Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage
Almond Blossom. if you don’t look closely at the rings of the branches, it could be by anyone. well, anyone who was among the greatest painters of the century: matisse, perhaps. anyone who had studied prints from the japanese. anyone who loved light, and living things. anyone who believed in the rebirth of nature, the seasons of existence, the blossoming of the creative.
– Gerald Locklin
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
– Albert Camus
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
