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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.

Bukowski

Remember yesterday, live today, hope for tomorrow.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

"It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air –
There's the rub, the task." – Virgil, "The Aeneid" (Book VI)

"I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me." -Joshua Graham

if at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

"Holy s**t - he's taking it like a champ!"
Negan, The Walking Dead #100

"Vision? What do you know about my vision? My vision would turn your world upside down, tear asunder your illusions, and send the sanctuary of your own ignorance crashing down around you. Now, ask yourself: are you really ready to see that vision?"
Huey, The Boondocks

"When you were, uh, pouring the Bisquick... were you trynna make pancakes?"
Abraham, The Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 11

There are two types of republicans, the rich and the stupid. The rich ones strive to keep the stupid ones stupid and the stupid ones strive to keep the rich ones rich.

here is another along the same lines-

“As for the Republicans—how can one regard seriously a frightened,
greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their
eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human
sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer
acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the
non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted
dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on
the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or
unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real
liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic
license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would
contravene some vague and mystical ‘American heritage’…) utterly
contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human
experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance
and respect one gives to the dead.”
HP Lovecraft

"Live through this, and you won't look back."

a rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths - chinese saying

"Ambition, I've found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews... No, I am not singing for you... Well, my teachers, they built this retaining wall of memory, all those multiple choices I answered so quickly, and got my grades back and forgot just as easily... but at least I got an A... And so, I don't have them to blame... Well, I should stop pointing fingers, reserve my judgement of all those public action figures, the cowboy presidents, so loud behind the bullhorn, so proud they can't admit when they've made a mistake... While poison ink spews from a speech writer's pen, he knows he don't have to say it, so it don't bother him... Honesty, accuracy is just popular opinion, and the approval rating's high... and so someone's gonna die. Well, ABC, NBC, CBS: BS, they give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split... and each new act of war is tonight's entertainment."
- 'Let's Not s**t Ourselves (To Love and Be Loved)', Bright Eyes

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer,
Like the Cover of an old Book,
Its Contents torn out,
And stript of its Lettering & Gilding,
Lies here, Food for Worms.
But the work shall not be lost;
For it will, as he believed, appear once more
In a new and more elegant Edition
Corrected and improved
By the Author