Quotations

"Quotation, (n.): the act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

I'd suggest that you not look too hard for a common theme to any of the following quotations. These are simply phrases - either hilarious or sublime - I've picked up through the years that I've found useful, in some form or fashion. Expect more to come.

"I should not speak so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt, but so are lies."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love does not consist of gazing at one another but in looking outward together in the same direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Wine is proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."
- Benjamin Franklin

“Some people never go crazy…what truly terrible lives they must lead.”
- Charles Bukowski

"Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?"
- George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan

"Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali?"
- Salvador Dali

"There he goes: One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never considered for mass production - too weird to live, too rare to die."
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."
- Fletcher Knebel

"When movie interest comes along, you know your work will change. If you sell a cow to a butcher, I wise-cracked, will it change?"
- P.F. Kluge

"The materials of the fiction writer are the humblest. Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."
- Flannery O'Connor

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."
- Hunter S. Thompson

"Sometimes I think I'm a king, in spite of myself."
- Charles Bukowski

"Illegitimi non carborundum." (Trans. "Don't let the bastards wear you down.")

"Here's to us, and those like us. There are damn few out there, and most are probably dead."
- Z. Daniel Barnett