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"However great the kindness and the efficiency, in every hospital death there will be some cruel, squalid detail, something perhaps too small to be told but leaving terribly painful memories behind, arising out of the haste, the crowding, the impersonality of a place where every day people are dying among strangers."

~George Orwell

if you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for - 2pac

"It seems acceptable that a table that is seen when one is awake is more nearly real than a dreamed table, which, with fifteen or twenty legs, chases one."

~Charles Fort

"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her." - Charles de Gaulle

"If any of you men need me, I'll be in the lead tank."

~General Patton

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, for "his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Press Your Luck or Pass?" - Peter Tomarken

"As we go along we shall develop the acceptance that astronomers might as well try to squeeze blood from images as to try to seduce symbols into conclusions, because applicable mathematics has no more to do with planetary inter-actions than have statues of saints."

~Charles Fort

"It would be far easier to go, 'Oh, I wish I loved women,' but I don't. I love the way a man thinks. I love the way a man smells. I love the way men look. And I'm hooked on the male physique--hooked on it."
-Nicole Kidman

"Vampires pretending to be humans, pretending to be vampires."
-- Louis de Pointe du Lac, "Interview With The Vampire"

"Dumb fabric!" - Sweetie Belle

I've been wanting to post a bunch by Charles Fort, here's one.

"I suspect that, in other worlds, or in other parts of one existence, there is esoteric knowledge of the human beings of this earth, kept back from common knowledge. This is easily thinkable, because even upon this earth there is little knowledge of human beings."

Women belong in the kitchen. Because that's where all the sharp knives are.

-Unknown random person