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Literary tattoos: Can you identify the quotes? - Telegraph Literary tattoos: Can you identify the quotes? - Telegraph






I love literary tattoos. If you were going to get a literary tattoo, what quote would you choose?

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If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

George Carlin


Although, if pushed, I could come up with at least another two dozen I'd consider, like "So long and thanks for all the fish..."

"Listen:"

and

"*poo-tee-wheet?*"

also make for good tats.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Hunter S. Thompson

Two from "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"

Surrealism has agents at every level of the machinery of power. -- Longman Harkoo

This one is perhaps too long, but I love it:

"There is only one sure means in life of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility, and disillusion. And that is to always ensure, to the utmost of your ability, that you are doing it solely for the money." -- George Deasey

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