Notice - Mark Twain Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR “That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body” Hemmingway - snows of kiliminjaro - the fighter Mark Twain famously said that it is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. Ginsberg - best minds of my generation Haruki Murakami on Writing is“an unhealthy type of work” because it brings the author face to face with the “toxin that lies deep down in all humanity” and without which “no creative activity in the real sense can take place.” Bo Burnham - Self Awareness Self-awareness doesn't absolve anyone of anything Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller's Day Off If you have to go away... "Is it absolutely neccessary to kill off everything you leave behind? i mean do you have to take away everything. Do you have to kill your horse, and your wife and burn your saddle and your armour The Snows of Kilimanjaro The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you Ezekiel 25:17 Pulp Fiction - Jules Winnefield It was not her fault It was not her fault that when he went to her he was already over. How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth. It was not so much that he lied but that there was no truth to tell. He had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some of the new ones. Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. Social contract theory Rousseau's opening sentence - Jeremy Bentham observed, property is not a thing but a legal concept, like possession. It is a relationship between a person and a thing Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. Margret Atwood You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. Brigham Young Viktor Frankl Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - To choose one's attitude in any given set pf circumstances, to choose one's own way Arden in Dunnage held that the objective standard for the duty of care applies uniformly to those with disabilities. Where an individual does not know how to prevent injuries to others their ‘liability … is treated in law as the price for being able to move freely in society’ Let them hate. Just make sure they spell your name right. The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary. Harvey spectre Ralph Waldo Emerson: The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. C.G. Jung No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. Heraclitus Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life. Jerzy Gregorek