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"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."

James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

"In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land."

Albert Camus, Thanks Rosie / Manics

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with a kind word."

Al Capone

"It's pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."

Raymond Chandler

"I'm tired of all the sex on the television. I mean, I keep falling off."

Graham Chapman

"For the unhappy man death is the commutation of a sentence of life imprisonment."

Alexander Chase

"I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me."

Winston Churchill

"The problem with groups who deal with rape is they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape."

Kurt Cobain

"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort - to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires, too soon, too soon - before life itself."

Joseph Conrad, Youth

"Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellow men, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility."

Joseph Conrad

"There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."

John Constable, Lecture

"Don't belittle yourself, other people do it better."

Jackie Cooke For KT

"And yet we know in our hearts that we learn the greatest and most profound things by breathing, by seeing, by feeling, by falling in and out and in and out of love."

Douglas Coupland, Life After God

"My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought how every day each of us experiences a few moments that have just a bit more resonance that other moments - we hear a word that sticks in our mind - or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly - we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queen - or we have an episode like the one that I had with the M & M cars back at the husky station.

And if we were to collect these small moments in a notebook and save them over a period of months we would see certain trends emerge that have been trying to speak through us. We would realize that we have been having another life altogether, one we didn't even know was going on inside us. And maybe this other life is more important than the one we think of as being real - this clumsy day-to-day world of furniture and noise and metal. So just maybe it is these small silent moments which are the true story-making events of our lives."

Douglas Coupland, Life After God

"I don't hold with abroad, and think that all foreigners speak English when our backs are turned."

Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant