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One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.


Gustave Flaubert


#conventions #duty #gustave-flaubert #life #madame-bovary

I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.


Christopher Hitchens


#isolationism #middle-east #noninterventionism #respect

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.


Isaac Asimov


#convention #fame #science-fiction #self-referential #science

No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and say, 'Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little'.


Michael Grant


#gone-series #the-fayz #action

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.


Kurt Vonnegut


#invention #quip #wings #writing #write

YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode.


James Patterson


#talent #talent

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.


George Carlin


#invention #job

First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no murderously repressive regimes might remain.


Daniel Kofman


#antiwar-movement #axis-of-evil #despotism #foreign-policy #foreign-policy-of-the-us

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.


Rebecca McKinsey


#convention #fashion #manners #rebellion #teenagers

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.


Dejan Stojanovic


#forgot #forgotten-past #inventions #literature #literature-quotes






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