If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.

~   CHUCK PALAHNIUK
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“Gashlycrumb Tinies Cover”, 1962  By: EDWARD GOREY….
11.08.12 /20:24/♥ 99
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

~   HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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09.13.12 /07:47/♥ 26

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

~   ALDOUS HUXLEY
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07.24.12 /20:27/♥ 82

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

~   JOHN STEINBECK
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07.13.12 /09:06/♥ 25
Oh My!….So AMAZING….Check out J.D. SALINGER’S “Yearbook Photo” w/ hand written message to pal….1936….
07.11.12 /17:14/♥ 128
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Fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.

~   WILLIAM GOLDING
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06.28.12 /07:32/♥ 6

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

~   HUNTER S. THOMPSON
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06.13.12 /09:30/♥ 6

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

~   GEORGE ORWELL
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06.10.12 /18:40/♥ 14

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

~   EDGAR ALLEN POE
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06.02.12 /06:50/♥ 8

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

~   MARK TWAIN
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05.26.12 /21:20/♥ 10

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

~   GEORGE ORWELL
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05.19.12 /13:10/♥ 15

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

~   NOAM CHOMSKY
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05.10.12 /10:35/♥ 12

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

~   GEORGE ORWELL
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04.29.12 /09:21/♥ 6

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

~   CHUCK PALAHNIUK
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04.14.12 /11:08/♥ 10