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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. - Author object (24)

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. - Author object (24)

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. - Author object (24)

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. - Author object (427)

I don't want to die without any scars. - Author object (427)

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. - Author object (427)

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. - Author object (427)

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. - Author object (427)

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most. - Author object (427)

You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world. - Author object (427)

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. - Author object (427)

You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world. - Author object (427)

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something. - Author object (427)

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. - Author object (368)

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. - Author object (97)

Only the dead have seen the end of war. - Author object (97)

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings - Author object (97)

good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Author object (97)

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them. - Author object (97)

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them. - Author object (97)