Quotes You Like

“You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”

Nelson Algren

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

~ George Steiner

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

Rudyard Kipling,

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A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.” ― Caroline Gordon

“Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”

Tom Lehrer

@moonbus said
“Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”

Tom Lehrer

@divegeester said
Therefore at it’s best it’s s**t everyday.

@moonbus said
Or a fatberg.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, the second half by our children --Clarence Darrow

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

~ Rene Descartes
French mathematician & philosopher (1596 - 1650)

@rookie54 said
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

~ Rene Descartes
French mathematician & philosopher (1596 - 1650)

@lemondrop

my personal favorite is george carlin

@rookie54 said
@lemondrop

my personal favorite is george carlin

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves--Confucius

@lemondrop
If you can't afford the upkeep don't buy the yacht. Howard Hughes.