Charles Bukowski // "Beware those quick to praise, for they need praise in return. Beware those who are quick to censor, they are afraid of what they do not know. Beware those who seek constant crowds, for they are nothing alone. Beware the average man, the average woman. Beware their love, their love is average, seeks average. But there is genius in their hatred. There is enough genius in their hatred to kill you, to kill anybody. Not wanting solitude, not understanding solitude, they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own. Not being able to create art, they will not understand art... Not being able to love fully, they will believe your love incomplete and then they will hate you and their hatred will be perfect...their finest art."
Jim Carrey // "People still sit around and think, 'When’s it gonna come...' And that’s the wrong way. You’re facing the wrong way, you’re facing away from it. You have to go, 'It’s here, it’s here, it’s here.'"
James Dean // "Only the gentle are ever really strong."
Jeanne Moreau // "I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally...they expect everyone to be like them."
Oscar Wilde // "Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working."
Miles Davis // "Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."
Ernest Hemingway // "Now is no time
to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."
David Lynch // "Just slow things down and it becomes more beautiful."
Anne Sexton // "Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth."
T.S. Eliot // "What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger."
Doris Lessing // "Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly throughout his or her school life is something like this: You are in the process of being indoctrinated... What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture... You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors... Those of you who are more robust and individual...will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself, educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always...that they are being molded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society."
Anne Frank // "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
