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"...Editorial assistant number two is Allen Muresan, who is not a forum member and who completely lacks color. He is a sophomore English major at the University of Nevada with an interest in editing and publishing, and for some reason thinks that D.net is connected with these enterprises. Moreover, his diligence within the first week of his hiring proved conclusively that he is no dandy."
- Dandyism.net
Something unquenched, unquenchable, is in me, that wants to speak out. A craving for love is in me, that itself speaks the language of love.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
- Jim Morrison
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
- Jim Morrison
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
- William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
- William Blake
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
- Honoré de Balzac
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
- Chuck Palahniuk
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom...My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
- James Joyce, Araby
The [devil] in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
You know what truth is? It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah--ain't it the truth?"
- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Don't matter if you care, if you don't own what you care about.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
"I can't tell if you're serious or not," said the driver.
"I won't know myself until I find out whether life is serious or not," said Trout. "It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
I had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Why pamper life's complexities, when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?
- The Smiths, "This Charming Man"
Friends don't waste wine when there's words to sell.
- Interpol, "Obstacle 2"
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
There'll be times
When my crimes
Will seem almost unforgivable
I give in to sin
Because you have to make this life liveable
- Depeche Mode, "Strangelove"
At that moment, without knowing it, she was trampling on all my hopes, shattering my life and destroying my future with the cold unconcern and innocent cruelty of a child who, out of curiosity, tears the wings off a butterfly.
- Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin
...When women of a certain type find pleasure in rending our heart, when they have made up their minds to plunge a dagger into it and to twist it round in the wound, are not such women adorable?
- Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin
Women are accustomed, thanks to some strange tendency of their nature, to notice only the flaws in a man of talent and only the good qualities in the character of a fool.
- Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin
I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom sets limits to knowledge too.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I mistrust all systematizers and I avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am one of God's own prototypes. A high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production... too weird to live, too rare to die.
- from Hunter S. Thompson
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss. For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
- Edvard Munch
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
- Jack Kerouac
From Dandyism.net:
Previously in this column we discussed racecar driver Count Marzotto, who paused once on his way to the victory podium to purchase a dozen flowers, affixed one to his jacket lapel, and gave the rest to a lissome young lady, saying (if the accounts are to be credited), something along the lines of "Stamina merits but one, beauty eleven."
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
- Jose Marti
Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Jim Morrison
A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.
- Jim Morrison
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.
- Jim Morrison
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
- Mark Twain
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- Oscar Wilde
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.
- Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
I'm a perfect gentlemen in every sense of the word. I'm kind, and good; which means nothing to the likes of you.
- from William S. Burroughs
The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where.
- James Thurber
On the whole I want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- from George Orwell
My virtue is that I say what I think, my vice is that what I think doesn't amount to much.
- from Peter Ustinov
I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.
- Conor Oberst
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
- Honoré de Balzac
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Art never comes from happiness.
- Chuck Palahniuk
...And still I see no changes. Can't a brother get a little peace? There's war on the streets & war in the Middle East. Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.
- Tupac Shakur