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"Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh."  Fanny Brice

"The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it."  Arthur Miller

"If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife."  Edward Hoagland

"There never was a good war or a bad peace."  Benjamin Franklin

"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."   Rodney Dangerfield

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it." George Bernard Shaw

"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!"  Nathaniel Hawthorne

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin

"One can't believe impossible things." Alice in Wonderland

"I stand in the way of the things I can be"  Moby

"But thy eternal summer shall not fade . . ." Shakespeare

"Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right." Grateful Dead

"That it will never come again / Is what makes life so sweet." Emily Dickinson

"So I walk on uplands unbounded,
and know that there is hope
for that which Thou didst mold out of dust
to have consort with things eternal."
               The Dead Sea Scrolls

"Who is all-powerful should fear everything." Pierre Corneille

"I know exactly what I think about all this, but I can never find words to put it in. Maybe if I get a little drunk I could dance it for you." Woody Allen

"I am glad we do not have to try and kill the stars."   Hemingway

"The course of your life determines who you are, the hand of fate decides your life. We are to believe that we have no control over who we are or what we shall become- this isn't true. Humans say that god has created us in his image, but it is humans who have in fact created a god in their image. The power to create and destroy makes god as man and man as god. There is no fate. There is no destiny. There is only existence." Michael Bullers

"'Od's my little life, I think she means to tangle my eyes too!" Shakespeare's As You Like It

"In the end, one experiences only oneself " Nietzsche

"Freedom is the freedom to believe that 2 + 2 is 4." George Orwell

"My Heart trembles like a poor leaf
The planets whirl in my dreams.
The stars press against my window.
I rotate in my sleep.
My bed is a warm planet."
           Marvin Mercer, Fifth grader in P.S. 153, Harlem

"The universe was not always fair, but it had a hell of a sense of humor." Sex and the City

"I didn't know how empty my soul was until it was filled." Excalibur

"Without taking a step outdoors
You know the whole World.
Without taking a look out the window
You see the colour of the sky."
   Tao

"What? can so young a thorn begin to prick?" Henry VI, Shakespeare

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results." Albert Einstein

"Popular theology . . . is a massive inconsistency derived from ignorance . . . The gods exist because nature herself has imprinted a conception of them on the minds of men." Cicero

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." George Barnard Shaw

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." Robert Louis Stevenson

"Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth." Archimedes

"By watching, I know that the stars are not going to last. I have seen some of the best ones melt and run down the sky. Since one can melt, they all can melt; since they can all melt, they can all melt the same night. That sorrow will come- I know it. I mean to sit up every night and look at them as long as I can keep awake; and I will impress those sparkling fields on my memory, so that by and by when they are taken away I can by my fancy restore those lovely myriads to the black sky and make them sparkle again, and double them by the blur of my tears." Mark Twain
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