The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
-Alan Wilson Watts
There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.
-Kris Carr
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
-P. G. Wodehouse
The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry.
-Ramana Maharshi
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
