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Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

—Philip K. Dick

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Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

—Dylan Thomas

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A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

—Robert Chapman

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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

—A. A. Milne

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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

—Bertrand Russell

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It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn’t become too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

—Rita Rudner

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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

—Eugene McCarthy

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Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

—George Carlin

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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Well done is better than well said.

—Benjamin Franklin

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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

—Christopher Morley

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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

—Robert Orben

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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

—John Maynard Keynes

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