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Fickle ([personal profile] fickle) wrote2008-05-25 08:09 am

Random Resonant Quotations Meme.

Taken from [livejournal.com profile] ceresi -- and because I'm a freak, I chose different quotations for my lj, ij and dj, making a total of fifteen quotations I've chosen overall. XD

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker


Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)


Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher (1956 - )


If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Juan Ramon Jiminez


In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

[identity profile] ohsnikt.livejournal.com 2008-05-26 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
I swear I know the context to the Camus, but it's been (four?) years since I cracked open The Myth of Sisyphus or his essays, whichever that set that was in. Did you slice it out or was that all that was there?

"Lined paper" is a classic shitty t-shirt quote.