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“The fact that we had independently decided to sweep our apartments on that Sunday afternoon after spending the weekend together, I took as a strong piece of evidence that we were right for each other. And from then on when I read things Samuel Johnson said about the deadliness of leisure and the uplifting effects of industry, I always nodded and thought of brooms.” ― Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine

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If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine. J.J. Cale

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If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that. Dr. John

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“Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?” ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

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“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.” ― Julia Child

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“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius

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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” ― Walter Cronkite

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“A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory lag, the lag between the time your senses receive something and you are able to react. One-thirtieth of a second is the time it takes, if you are the most alert person alive, and most people are a lot slower than that. Now Cassady is right up against that 1/30th of a second barrier. He is going as fast as a human can go, but even he can't overcome it. He is a living example of how close you can come, but it can't be done. You can't go any faster than that. You can't through sheer speed overcome the lag. We are all of us doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we are in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past, and we will really never be able to control the present through ordinary means. That lag has to be overcome some other way, through some kind of total breakthrough.” ― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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“...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.” ― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

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“Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.” ― Lou Reed

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"Outta sight" -Isaac Washington

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“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.” ― Mark Twain

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I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.  - Mr. T

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“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

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Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

- Harry Callahan: 

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“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.” ― H.P. Lovecraft