Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
―Robert Frost
"There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world."
—Jean Baudrillard
"Horror is the removal of masks."
—Robert Bloch
"Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world."
—William Shakespeare
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
—Miguel de Cervantes
"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."
—Stephen King
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“I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along."
—Annie Dillard
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
—Mark Twain
"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief's."
—William Blake
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
“We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels.”
—Anais Nin
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"You’d be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap."
—Steven Tyler
"Me, I want to crack up at that completely ... But the look on Bop-Shop Carl? Pissing his pants slowly with his face."
—Bill Peters (from Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality)
"Two different faces, but in tight places
We think and we act as one"
—Irving Berlin
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
—Virginia Woolf
"Even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked."
—Bob Dylan
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“You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”
—Henrik Ibsen
“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.”
—Whitney Houston
“Sex stops when you pull up your pants,
Love never lets you go.”
—Kingsley Amis
“I grow old...I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”
—T.S. Eliot
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“Hell is other people.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre
“Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why use them?”
—Dong Zhongshu
“The mythology of Einstein shows him as a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as of a function analogous to the mechanical making of sausages.”
—Roland Barthes
“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.”
—Samuel Johnson
“Man has great power of speech, but the greater part thereof is empty and deceitful. The animals have little, but that little is useful and true; and better is a small and certain thing than a great falsehood.”
—Leonardo da Vinci
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“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together”
—Anaïs Nin
VLADIMIR:
Moron!
ESTRAGON:
Vermin!
VLADIMIR:
Abortion!
ESTRAGON:
Morpion!
VLADIMIR:
Sewer-rat!
ESTRAGON:
Curate!
VLADIMIR:
Cretin!
ESTRAGON:
(with finality). Crritic!
—Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
“The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”
—Oscar Wilde (The Importnace of Being Earnest)
“Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.”
—Lorrie Moore
“Strange how potent cheap music is.”
—Noël Coward
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“Aesthetic pleasure in the beautiful consists, to a large extent, in the fact that, when we enter the state of pure contemplation, we are raised for the moment above all willing, above all desires and cares; we are, so to speak, rid of ourselves.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer
“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
—Carl Jung
“Don’t think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical.”
―George Saunders (from CivilWarLand in Bad Decline)
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
"There are still subjects that are in the Realm of Pain Beyond Uncomebackability."
—Bill Peters (from Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality)
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