“I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself, and am only loud and merry to conceal my sadness.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor left over to experiment upon.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Death was too definite an object to be wished for, or avoided.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“You might as well try to make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“the question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”

― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable—not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“Every major industrialized nation has A BEER (you can't be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need A BEER).”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might...”

― George Orwell, 1984

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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