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

~   CHUCK PALAHNIUK
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“Portrait Of Michel Leiris”, 1990  By: FRANCIS BACON….
04.21.13 /11:28/♥ 65
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

~   WILLIAM BLAKE
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12.28.12 /09:26/♥ 32
“Gashlycrumb Tinies Cover”, 1962  By: EDWARD GOREY….
11.08.12 /20:24/♥ 98
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

~   ROBERT FROST
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10.01.12 /13:03/♥ 39

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

~   OSCAR WILDE
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05.30.12 /20:04/♥ 12

Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.

~   T.S. ELIOT
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05.28.12 /10:33/♥ 12