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- "this is between me and the vegetable" - Little Shop of Horrors
- " i love you but i'm going to mace you in the face!" - The Darjeeling Limited
- "the fact that you hate absurdities and silliness so much, makes me imagine you as some man in a gray suit, who tenses up when he hears a child's laughter and who's idea of a party is to sprinkle some salt into lukewarm water." -frezned
- "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be", said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." -Alice in Wonderland
- "They go to big american universities.. like Oxford" -Giovanni
- "i want to discover why i know what's right and still do what's wrong. i want to discover what happiness is... and what value there is in suffering. i want to discover why men go to war... and what they really say deep in their hearts when they pray to God. I want to discover what it is that men and women feel when they say they love." -- War and Peace
- "On ne sait jamais" (One never knows) -- The Little Prince
- "Words are the source of misunderstandings" --The Little Prince
- "But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world." - The Little Prince
- "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." -- The Little Prince
- "Only the children know what they are looking for" -- The Little Prince
- "What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well ..." -- The Little Prince
- "Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere-be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost." -- A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, ch 48
- "We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves." -- A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, ch 44
- "Growing up spoiled a lot of things." A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- "Everything is empty but awake! Things are empty in time and space and mind." - The Dharma Bums
- "But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious." - The Dharma Bums
- "I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion" - On The Road
- "Basically, what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly." - The Virgin Suicides
- “All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.” - Walt Whitman
- "Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it"
- "Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."- George W Bush, Dec. 2000
- JOAN WALSH write of Jerry Brown becoming mayor of Oakland, 1999: And the city's sometimes scolding poet laureate, Ishmael Reed, was beaming. He recited a poem that could be Brown's platform, and the manifesto of the quiet urban cultural revolution that's remaking cities, which has gone almost unremarked: "Let achieving A's and B's be as important as scoring jump shots ... Let the police be courteous to all our citizens and the citizens be courteous to police ... Let our hotels be filled to capacity ... Let our jazz clubs be smoking ... Let us enjoy teriyaki, couscous, fettucine, pizza, red beans and rice, gumbo -- and let our waistlines narrow. Let Oakland be a city of civility. Let the good times roll."
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