Favourite Quote (Inspirational or Otherwise)
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"What is a friend but an enemy with a smile?"
HR Giger
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"We cannot believe, we men, that power will ever reside happily in the body of a woman, unless that power is a male child. Not true power. The power must be in male hands, God-given. That’s what our fathers tell us, idiots that they are."
-Clive Barker, Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament"I knew that monsters were far more gentle and more desirable than the monsters living inside ‘nice people.’ Accepting that you are a monster gives you the leeway to not behave like one. When you deny being a monster, you behave like one."
-Guillermo del Toro -
“Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
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Knowledge is knowing you know nothing
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- They sailed easily from the past into the present, but now they can't get back. - LeGuin
- The clown cries when the balloon pops.
- If you're ever sad, just remember: the world is 4,543 billion years old, and you still somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.
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'In winter,' Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.” ― John Crowley, Little, Big
That is, love is fake to those not in it, but entirely real for those who are there.
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“The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny speck surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then - poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.”
― Charles Simic
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.