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quote[0]="Fashionably sensitive but too cool to care. ~ Jewel Kilcher"
quote[1]="The easiest choices in life just aren't very fun or interesting."
quote[2]="You cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening your own."
quote[3]="The time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love. ~ Lisa Loeb"
quote[4]="Deep down where it counts, I'm very shallow."
quote[5]="Silence is golden, Words are made of lead, In the alchemy of love, Some things are better left unsaid. ~ Michelle Shocked"
quote[6]="Some days there is magic in the air."
quote[7]="When your only tool is a hammer, every problem is a nail."
quote[8]="The nail that sticks out is the one that gets hammered"
quote[9]="In order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. ~ Richard Feynman"
quote[10]="Great forces and abilities do not carry with them clear instructions on how to use them. ~ Richard Feynman"
quote[11]="If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar. ~ Richard Feynman"
quote[12]="With more knowledge comes a deeper, more wonderful mystery, luring one on to penetrate deeper still. ~ Richard Feynman"
quote[13]="Destinations are where we begin again."
quote[14]="I think I'm acquiring a personality."
quote[15]="Life's adventures are the verses and choruses of your unique song, and when it is over, you are dead. So far, I'm still singing."
quote[16]="The universe speaks to me"
quote[17]="All words are made up words."
quote[18]="Everything has a reason (that I make up)"
quote[19]="Hate destroys the vessel that holds it"
quote[20]="Espèce de sale gorille = stupid monkey mutant"
quote[21]="The mob has many heads but no brains."
quote[22]="Time doesn't really heal. It just makes you not give a crap."
quote[23]="The need for judgment is never removed by statistics."
quote[24]="Better is a small and certain thing than a great falsehood. ~ daVinci"
quote[25]="In case of darkness, do something."
quote[26]="Too much real world has invaded my space."
quote[27]="Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day."
quote[28]="Extraordinarily Mundane"
quote[29]="The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."
quote[30]="Brave is not reckless, independent is not defiant, strong is not spoiled"
quote[31]="Reality is adjustable"
quote[32]="Chill or be Chilled"
quote[33]="License to Chill"
quote[34]="Technology is no substitute for integrity"
quote[35]="Digital power corrupts digitally"
quote[36]="Don't Wait to be Great"
quote[37]="Don't take life so seriously; it isn't permanent"
quote[38]="The world should sue the young for breach of promise"
quote[39]="Education battles ignorance, not stupidity. ~ me"
quote[40]="There are stupid questions as long as there are stupid people asking questions"
quote[41]="It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. ~ Mark Twain"
quote[42]="I see stupid people"
quote[43]="If knowledge is made up of answers, then what were the questions?"
quote[44]="Only a person who has questions can have understanding"
quote[45]="Off to see the Wizard"
quote[46]="In the hands of a singular man, simple things carefully placed ring with an undeniable harmony. ~ Bruce Lee"
quote[47]="To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. ~ Bruce Lee"
quote[48]="I am the Alpha Geek"
quote[49]="You are special & unique, just like everyone else"
quote[50]="Don't tell my parole officer I'm here"
quote[51]="Common sense isn't so common any more"
quote[52]="Ignore the box"
quote[53]="Do not read this message"
quote[54]="Travelling through time"
quote[55]="I'm experiencing a shift into a parallel universe"
quote[56]="Nothing should supplant the true act of discovery"
quote[57]="Art saves lives"
quote[58]="It ain't easy being green"
quote[59]="Stand for something or you'll fall for anything"
quote[60]="Be the change you want to see"
quote[61]="Grits ain't groceries"
quote[62]="Tell me again how lucky I am to work here. I keep forgetting."
quote[63]="My job ate my life"
quote[64]="The meek shall internet the earth"
quote[65]="I don't know. I don't care. And it doesn't make any difference. ~ Jack Kerouac"
quote[66]="Commit random acts of kindness"
quote[67]="You are not on a date"
quote[68]="I'm not playing the field. I'm just grazing."
quote[69]="I'm so broke I can't even pay attention"
quote[70]="If the phone don't ring, it's me. ~ Jimmy Buffett"
quote[71]="Why do people that know the least know it the loudest?"
quote[72]="Gravity wins again!"
quote[73]="It's cute how you think I'm listening"
quote[74]="Comment whores welcome!"
quote[75]="Smile! (people will wonder what you've been up to)"
quote[76]="No drama zone"
quote[77]="Flirt. Wink. Smile."
quote[78]="I didn't brush my teeth today... film at eleven."
quote[79]="Brighter, Fresher Blogging"
quote[80]="When two hearts race, both win."
quote[81]="I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying. ~ Woody Allen"
quote[82]="Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~ H. G. Wells"
quote[83]="I don't aspire to be a great wit, but people tell me I'm half-way there."
quote[84]="Don't attempt vast projects with half-vast plans"
quote[85]="Cooking is a dangerous sport."
quote[86]="Any ship can be a minesweeper... once."
quote[87]="Sometimes you're the windshield. Sometimes you're the bug."
quote[88]="If the enemy is in range, so are you."
quote[89]="If you see a bomb technician running, follow him."
quote[90]="Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers."
quote[91]="You don't have to outrun the beast. You just have to outrun the slowest of your friends."
quote[92]="What a long, strange trip it's been... and I'm not even a Deadhead."
quote[93]="Things aren't like they used to be. But they weren't like that then either."
quote[94]="I do the work of three men: Larry, Moe, and Curly."
quote[95]="The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. ~ James Thurber"
quote[96]="To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ~ Flaubert"
quote[97]="Likability and lickability are remarkably similar in both spelling and concept. ~ Brandon: One Child Left Behind"
quote[98]="Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~ Einstein"
quote[99]="Our town is so small, we have to take turns being mayor, preacher, and town drunk."
quote[100]="Socrates was a philosopher. He talked a lot. They poisoned him. ~ 4th grade essay"
quote[101]="The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong."
quote[102]="If journalism were easy, Newsweek would do it."
quote[103]="The delicious futility of impossible tasks is the catnip of overachievers. ~ The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason"
quote[104]="Only a man who sees giants can ever stand upon their shoulders."
quote[105]="To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains. ~ Mary Pettibone Poole"
quote[106]="We keep discussing whether 'under god' should be in our pledge when we should be discussing 'justice for all.'"
quote[107]="If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? ~ Will Rogers"
quote[108]="When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks. ~ Eugene V. Debs"
quote[109]="I moved your cheese. Get over it."
quote[110]="I have a hole in my head, but that's beside the point."
quote[111]="A website, as you know, is a resource designed to provide quick and easy access to outdated or useless information. ~ Mary Roach"
quote[112]="When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. ~ T.D. Jakes"
quote[113]="2B or not 2B. That is the square root of 4B squared."
quote[114]="Polylingual means that I speak several languages. What did you think it meant?"
quote[115]="Cunning linguist"
quote[116]="Give me some words I can dance to and a melody that rhymes. ~ Steve Goodman"
quote[117]="The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, but it still needs mowing."
quote[118]="Necessity is a mother."
quote[119]="Lurkers are welcome here. Uh, just leave me a message so I know you came by...."
quote[120]="Your kid may be an honor student, but you're an idiot."
quote[121]="My kid beat up your honor student."
quote[122]="I have a Zen stereo in my car -- I roll down all the windows. ~ me"
quote[123]="In some ways, you know, people that don't exist are much nicer than people that do. ~ Lewis Carroll"
quote[124]="Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. ~ Mozart"
quote[125]="Prayer. So you're having a conversation with the creator of the universe... and _you_ are the one doing the talking?"
quote[126]="Eschew obfuscation!"
quote[127]="MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken! ~ Lewis Black"
quote[128]="Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. ~ Anton Chekhov"
quote[129]="If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ~ Gelett Burgess"
quote[130]="Our lives are our minds looking through a window at the world."
quote[131]="I told him to turn the knob clockwise. He stood there staring at his (digital) watch. Lost. ~ me"
quote[132]="I think worse of myself than they can possibly think of me, being better acquainted with the man. ~ Henry David Thoreau"
quote[133]="All things are in transition. Nothing endures, and yet everything continues. ~ CIGT"
quote[134]="Events in the physical world are reflections of ideas from the world beyond human perception. ~ Richard Wilhelm"
quote[135]="Grass doesn't need lectures to grow properly; rivers don't have to be bullied into finding the sea. ~ CIGT"
quote[136]="Knowledge is endless; life is limited. To pursue the endless with the limited is dangerous. ~ CIGT"
quote[137]="You can't teach an old dog new tricks, but you can beat him repeatedly with a rolled up newspaper."
quote[138]="Everyone is someone else's weirdo."
quote[139]="Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience."
quote[140]="What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own. ~ Henry David Thoreau"
quote[141]="To play it safe is not to play. ~ Robert Altman"
quote[142]="The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. ~ Linus Pauling"
quote[143]="Fill in the blank: _____ is not the answer. _____ is the question. The answer is yes."
quote[144]="There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. ~ Johann Sebastian Bach"
quote[145]="A poet, by definition, has to be an enemy of the State. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti"
quote[146]="When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ~ Anatole France"
quote[147]="I never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. ~ Clarence Darrow"
quote[148]="Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. ~ Mordecai Siegal"
quote[149]="The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Dorothy Parker"
quote[150]="Of the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable. ~ Anthony Trollop"
quote[151]="The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. ~ Bernard Malamud"
quote[152]="Nothing matters very much and few things matter at all. ~ Arthur Balfour"
quote[153]="I reserve the right to be more interesting than my clothes. ~ Mark Durham"
quote[154]="If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. ~ Amy Tan"
quote[155]="Bureaucrats have motives for inventing enemies and exaggerating their misdeeds. ~ Carl Sagan"
quote[156]="If you want to be able to predict the future, invent it. ~ Chris Carter"
quote[157]="I touch the future. I teach. ~ Christa McAuliffe"
quote[158]="Shallow problems call for shallow solutions."
quote[159]="Bumper sticker you'll never see: I'm hung like Einstein and as smart as a horse."
quote[160]="It's mercy, compassion, and forgivenes I lack, not rationality. ~ From the movie Kill Bill"
quote[161]="If your vision doesn't cost you anything, it's a daydream. ~ John Maxwell"
quote[162]="Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. ~ George Washington"
quote[163]="You can't be liberated in your thinking if you're conservative in your approach. ~ Monty Roberts"
quote[164]="A teacher does not have the right to put a cap on the aspirations of his students, no matter how unreal those aspirations might seem. ~ Monty Roberts"
quote[165]="...I am in the presence of greatness. I had better do my job with patience, diligence, and competence. ~ Monty Roberts"
quote[166]="Just remember, in choosing, that we often resist what we most need. ~ Julia Cameron"
quote[167]="The history of human intelligence can be seen as the brain's search for ways of communicating effectively with itself. ~ Tony Buzan"
quote[168]="Lying is a social lubricant"
quote[169]="The next time someone asks, 'How are you?' answer, 'How would I know?'"
quote[170]="You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson"
quote[171]="If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ~ James Thurber"
quote[172]="If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. ~ Will Rogers"
quote[173]="Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ~ Mark Twain"
quote[174]="The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's. ~ Mark Twain"
quote[175]="If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ~ Katharine Hepburn"
quote[176]="There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky"
quote[177]="Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. ~ Theodore Roethke"
quote[178]= "Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ~ Allen Ginsberg"
quote[179]="Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance. ~ Bruce Schneier"
quote[180]="Life is very nice, but it lacks form.  It's the aim of art to give it some. ~ Jean Anouilh"
quote[181]="Not all that wander are lost."
quote[182]="I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. ~ Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner"
quote[183]="Remember we're all in this alone. ~ Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner"
quote[184]="For fast acting relief, try slowing down. ~ Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner"
quote[185]="The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ~ Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner"
quote[186]="No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. ~ Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner"
quote[187]="The best mind-altering drug is truth. ~ Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner"
quote[188]="If the formula for water is H2O, is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared? ~ Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner"
quote[189]="Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ~ Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner"
quote[190]="Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ~ Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner"
quote[191]="There are two kinds of people in the world... those who divide the world into two groups and those who don't."
quote[192]="There are only 10 kinds of people in the world... those who know binary, and those who don't."
quote[193]="There are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better. ~ Tom Robbins"
quote[194]="When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. ~ Hunter S. Thompson"
quote[195]="When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ~ Eric Hoffer"
quote[196]="The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated. ~ Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady)"
quote[197]="[T]hey knew all lovers are equal in the dark, that light defines beauty the way longing defines desire.... ~ Michael Blumenthal"
quote[198]="There is a simple solution to every complex problem, and it is usually wrong and makes the problem worse. ~ H.L. Mencken"
quote[199]="Wisdom begins in wonder. ~ Socrates"
quote[200]="What I really should say is what I mean. I take a breath and continue before the air changes over what I said. ~ anonymousgrrl"
quote[201]="People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. ~ St. Augustine"
quote[202]="Will I still respect you in the morning? Who says I respect you now?"
quote[203]="A cheerful attitude may not solve all of your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
quote[204]="How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live! ~ Henry David Thoreau"
quote[205]="I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. ~ Steve Martin"
quote[206]="At first you feel that you may die, then you worry that you won't."
quote[207]="Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. ~ Audrey Hepburn"
quote[208]="Life is just blog fodder. ~ Elle of True Blue 4ever"
quote[209]="It doesn’t take strength to let go, it only takes understanding."
quote[210]="Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens. ~ Malcolm Cowley"
quote[211]="I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~ Jorge Luis Borges"
quote[212]="Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~ Confucious"
quote[213]="All science is either physics or stamp collecting. ~ Ernest Rutherford"
quote[214]="There are no degrees of uniqueness. ~ William Shawn"
quote[215]="People forget years and remember moments. ~ Ann Beattie"
quote[216]="The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~ David Russell"
quote[217]="The difference between plutonium and me = plutonium has a half-life more than I do. ~ me"
quote[218]="I get a different answer at midnight than I do at noon. ~ Sherwood Smith"
quote[219]="You looked hotter on MySpace."
quote[220]="I march to a different accordion."
quote[221]="Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. ~ Emile Chartier"
quote[222]="I made a mistake once. I thought I was wrong about something, but it turns out I was mistaken."
quote[223]="I had a thought once. It died of loneliness."
quote[224]="Wanna know what my first thought was this morning? I'll let you know when I have one...."
quote[225]="What we think, we become. ~ Buddha"
quote[226]="Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ~ Nietzche"
quote[227]="I tawt I taw a puddy tat. ~ Tweety"
quote[228]="Information isn't wisdom. Information isn't learning. If information were learning, you could be educated by memorizing the world almanac. If you did that, you wouldn't be educated. You'd be weird ~ David McCullough"
quote[229]="What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau"
quote[230]="All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. ~ Charlie Chaplin"
quote[231]="You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down. ~ Charlie Chaplin"
quote[232]="I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. ~ Charlie Chaplin"
quote[233]="Man's greatest tragedy is that he can conceive of a perfection which he cannot attain. ~ Jerome McGann"
quote[234]="There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray"
quote[235]="Anti-war books are as likely to stop war as anti-glacier books are to stop glaciers. ~ Kurt Vonnegut"
quote[236]="I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. ~ Sharon Olds"
quote[237]="You haven’t achieved equality until you’re a legitimate target for humor. ~ Scott Adams"
quote[238]="There have never in history been so many opportunities to do so many things that aren't worth doing. ~ William Gaddis"
quote[239]="I overdid everything as a matter of course. ~ Henri Matisse"
quote[240]="Whatever it is, I'm against it! ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[241]="If I held you any closer I'd be in back of you. ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[242]="You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute 'n a huff. ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[243]="When I invite a woman to dinner I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay! ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[244]="Yes, we have a dining room. If it's fish, we have it. If it's meat, we have it. If it's fowl, we've had it too long. ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[245]="An apprentice mortician? What, do you only bury live people? ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[246]="I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[247]="Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do! ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[248]="I've a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[249]="I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER. ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[250]="Why, a four-year-old child could understand this. (Run out and find me a four-year-old child; I can't make head or tail out of it.) ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[251]="Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did! ~ Groucho Marx"
quote[252]="Literature stops in 1100. After that it's only books. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien"
quote[253]= "Wit goes for the jugular; humor goes for the jocular. ~ Florence King"
quote[254]="The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ~ Florence King"
quote[255]="Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. ~ Richard M. Nixon"
quote[256]="Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~ William James"
quote[257]="Property is theft. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon"
quote[258]="No, the sky isn't falling. It fell a long time ago."
quote[259]="Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. ~ Edith Wharton"
quote[260]="So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. ~ Virginia Woolf"
quote[261]="He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ~ Thomas Paine"
quote[262]="Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. ~ Anton Chekhov"
quote[263]="It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ~ W.C. Fields"
quote[264]="Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt"
quote[265]="Above all, discard the irrelevant. ~ Barbara Tuchman"
quote[266]="The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of. ~ Shirley Hazzard"
quote[267]="Maybe the best we can do is do what we love as best we can. ~ Galway Kinnell"
quote[268]="It is belief in love and hope for Mr. Right that keeps us shaving our legs. ~ aka_monty of The Daily Bitch"
quote[269]="I have CDO. It's like Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, but it's alphabetical. Like it should be."
quote[270]="A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. ~ Diane Arbus"
quote[271]="You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. ~ Henrik Ibsen"
quote[272]="In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~ Margaret Atwood"
quote[273]="There's nothing remarkable about [making music]. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. ~ Johann Sebastian Bach"
quote[274]="A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ~ Tennessee Williams"
quote[275]="When someone recognizes you in a grocery store nod briefly and become a cabbage. ~ Naomi Shihab Nye"
quote[276]="Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature. ~ Howard Lindsay"
quote[277]="Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important. ~ Senator Eugene (Joseph) McCarthy"
quote[278]="There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk. ~ Tom Sharpe"
quote[279]="All the world's a stage, and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. ~ Sean O'Casey"
quote[280]="There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. ~ Anna Sewell"
quote[281]="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. ~ René Descartes"
quote[282]="Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. ~ John Fowles"
quote[283]="Looking foolish does the spirit good. ~ John Updike"
quote[284]="Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. ~ Anatole France"
quote[285]="Drama is life with the dull bits left out. ~ Alfred Hitchcock"
quote[286]="Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ~ Alfred Hitchcock"
quote[287]="One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs. ~ Alfred Hitchcock"
quote[288]="Give them pleasure — the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. ~ Alfred Hitchcock"
quote[289]="Self-plagiarism is style. ~ Alfred Hitchcock"
quote[290]="I never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. ~ Clarence Darrow"
quote[291]="There are many people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. ~ Josh Billings"
quote[292]="Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. ~ Josh Billings"
quote[293]="When you grow up in a dysfunctional household, you quickly tune in to what's going on under the surface. From age five or six, I was scanning, figuring out all the stuff not being discussed. ~ Sue Grafton"
quote[294]="The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish. ~ Terry Southern"
quote[295]="It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli"
quote[296]="One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that it can be done at home. ~ Kaye Gibbons"
quote[297]="Self-knowledge does not necessarily help a novelist. It helps a human being a great deal but novelists, as we know, are often appalling human beings. ~ Peter Carey"
quote[298]="The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. ~ Fred Astaire"
quote[299]="Physics is like sex ... it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. ~ Richard Feynman"
quote[300]="More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. ~ Robert Smith Surtees"
quote[301]="Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth--more than ruin--more even than death. ~ Bertrand Russell"
quote[302]="If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~ John Stuart Mill"
quote[303]="Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. ~ Richard Wagner"
quote[304]="I think of myself more as a song-and-dance man. ~ Bob Dylan, when asked if he thought of himself more as a singer or a poet"
quote[305]="Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. ~ Michael Chabon"
quote[306]="If anyone asks why I write gloomy novels, they need only know that my father came from the South and my mother from the North. ~ William Trevor"
quote[307]="Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. ~ Theodore Roethke"
quote[308]="We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. ~ Walker Percy"
quote[309]="I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. ~ Marilyn Monroe"
quote[310]="Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. ~ Deborah Tannen"
quote[311]="I have had just about all I can take of myself. ~ S.N. Behrman"
quote[312]="That’s how politics works. The best liar wins. As long as our choices are limited to liars, we’ll keep electing them and wondering what went wrong. ~ Scott Adams"
quote[313]="The life of the creative man is led, directed, and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. ~ Saul Steinberg"
quote[314]="We [humans] are the species that clamors to be lied to. ~ Joyce Carol Oates"
quote[315]="Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ Blaise Pascal"
quote[316]="I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. ~ Helen Keller"
quote[317]="There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. ~ Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes"
quote[318]="Youth is given; age is achieved. ~ May Swenson"
quote[319]="There's no such thing as a born writer.  It's a skill you've got to learn, just like learning how to be a bricklayer or a carpenter. ~ Larry Brown"
quote[320]="Trust everybody, but cut the cards. ~ Finley Peter Dunne"
quote[321]="I live here among the ignorant like a lost man ... they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I should mention them in my writings. ~ John Clare [a poet, not a blogger]"
quote[322]="When you call me that, smile. ~ Owen Wister"
quote[323]="There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know until he takes up a pen to write. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray"
quote[324]="Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. ~ Karl Popper"
quote[325]="How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? ~ Sherlock Holmes"
quote[326]="If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real. ~ James Baldwin"
quote[327]="I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder, which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanctity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts. ~ P.D. James"
quote[328]="Well, if Armageddon's on, I suppose one should be there. ~ Rupert Chawner Brooke"
quote[329]="If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out. ~ Louis Armstrong"
quote[330]="Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. ~ Wendell Berry"
quote[331]="A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime--it's not very scientific, but it helps. ~ Sir Alexander Fleming (the man who discovered penicillin)"
quote[332]="I [want to] give [my audience] pleasure--the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. ~ Alfred Hitchcock"
quote[333]="Learn to write well, or not to write at all. ~ John Dryden"
quote[334]="Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. ~ Rod Serling"
quote[335]="All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. ~ Bobby Knight"
quote[336]="An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. ~ Charles de Montesquieu"
quote[337]="Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~ Cyril Connolly"
quote[338]="The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. ~ Edwin Schlossberg"
quote[339]="You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. ~ Florence Nightingale"
quote[340]="Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. ~ Fran Lebowitz"
quote[341]="The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block. ~ Inigo DeLeon"
quote[342]="It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. ~ Isabel Colegate"
quote[343]="Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. ~ Jesse Stuart"
quote[344]="About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ~ Josh Billings"
quote[345]="The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. ~ Leo Rosten"
quote[346]="The first draft of anything is always shit ~ Ernest Hemingway"
quote[347]="Writing is no trouble, you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity enough - it is the occurring which is difficult. ~ Stephen Leacock"
quote[348]="No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. ~ Robert Byrne"
quote[349]="Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ~ T. S. Eliot"
quote[350]="I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. ~ William Gass"
quote[351]="Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ Pablo Picasso"
quote[352]="If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague."
quote[353]="All happiness depends on courage and work. ~ Honor&eacute; de Balzac"
quote[354]="Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a heap of stones is a house. ~ Poincaré"
quote[355]="Standardized testing tells a kid that society values… standardization, and testing. (Sometimes life really is that simple.) ~ Jesse Scaccia"
quote[356]="It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. ~ Sydney Smith"
quote[357]="A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ~ Steven Wright"
quote[358]="If God dropped acid, would he see people? -Steven Wright"
quote[359]="Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ~ Steven Wright "
quote[360]="The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt"
quote[361]="Don't get it right, just get it written. ~ James Thurber"
quote[362]="Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam. ~ James Thurber"
quote[363]="A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense. ~ James Thurber"
quote[364]="All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. ~ James Thurber"
quote[365]="I wish the first word I ever said was the word 'quote,' so right before I die I could say 'unquote.' ~ StevenWright"
quote[366]="Taken out of context, I must seem so strange ~ Ani DiFranco"
quote[367]="Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you. ~ Ani DiFranco"
quote[368]="The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world. ~ Ani DiFranco"
quote[369]="If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong  ~ Ani DiFranco"
quote[370]="fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows ~ Ani DiFranco"
quote[371]="I try to laugh at whatever life brings ~ Ani DiFranco"
quote[372]="I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves. ~ Ani DiFranco"
quote[373]="for every lie I unlearn I learn something new  ~ Ani DiFranco"
quote[374]="If I walk down the street alone, I am not a parade. But if y'all join me...."
quote[375]="Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town."
quote[376]="Note to students: Posting 'Your the best' on a teacher's page is not a great compliment. ~ me"
quote[377]="the flight attendant will never inquire frantically whether there's a writer on board. ~ Rachel Kadish"
quote[378]="Expectations are premeditated resentments."
quote[379]="Moderation (and plausible deniability) in everything."
quote[380]="It takes a certain talent to misspell your own name. ~ Brian A. Klems"
quote[381]="You can have anything you want. You cannot have everything you want."
quote[382]="I drink coffee so I can do dumb things faster."
quote[383]="Look, just give me some inner peace, or I'll mop the floor with ya! ~ Homer J. Simpson"
quote[384]="Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. ~ Otomo No Yakamochi"
quote[385]="There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~ Richard Bach"
quote[386]="I just finished a 30 day diet. I lost five days."
quote[387]="The United States continues to inch along in adopting the metric system."
quote[388]="Presumed eloquent"
quote[389]="Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
quote[390]="I'm going to get my eyes checked, because getting them polka dotted would just be silly."
quote[391]="Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. ~ Dale Carnegie"
quote[392]="The map is not the journey."
quote[393]="Standing still is moving in a direction you have not chosen."
quote[394]="The way you're acting right now is how I'll write about you in my memoir."
quote[395]="There is no room for demons when you are self-possessed."
quote[396]="I try to limit my virtues so they are easy to keep track of."
quote[397]="Sometimes I think Tennyson was an idiot."
quote[398]="I'll make sure to make next week's even more abstract and weird. Because it's not about YOU. ~ @shadowsinstone"
quote[399]="You drove me crazy, but the trip back I took alone."
quote[400]="Sarcasm and orgasm are inversely proportional."
quote[401]="I named a character Dremel... because he's a tool."
quote[402]="I am not accident prone. I am intentionally supine."
quote[403]="I have ideas I haven't even thought of yet."
quote[404]="My clothes are putting me on."
quote[405]="Your attempts at humor are amusing."
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