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Oliver Gaspirtz

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

art, audience, books, consumerism, crap, horror, horror-authors, horror-romance, mass-culture, profit, stephenie-meyer, twilight, vampires

Oliver Gaspirtz

How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it’s no great mystery why bosses and secretaries or co-workers or classmates end up dating each other.

bosses, hooking-up, intimacy, love, love-quotes, mystery, proximity, relationship-quotes, relationships, romance

Oliver Gaspirtz

Some guys like to undermine a girl’s self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn’t hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

bees, girls, guys, guys-and-their-dumb-ways, horses, insults, relationships, self-confidence, self-esteem, verbal-abuse

Oliver Gaspirtz

Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

life, life-lessons, making-waves, ocean, waves

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A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.

aquarium, cat, cats, fish, fish-tank, interactivity, television, tv

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Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn’t mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn’t need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I’m not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades of Grey.

50-shades, 50-shades-of-grey, bdsm, book-publishing, books, consumerism, copycats, erotica, knock-offs

Oliver Gaspirtz

Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you’ll be punished with eternal hellfire. That’s the same kind of “choice” an abuse boyfriend gives you: ‘Either you do exactly what I say, or I’ll beat the shit out of you.

abuse, boyfriends, free-will, god, philosophy, religion

Oliver Gaspirtz

Dogs are angels full of poop.

angels, angels-in-disguise, animals, animals-love, dogs, dogs-and-humans, funny, funny-and-random, funny-book-quotes, funny-but-true, funny-humor, funny-quotes, pets, poop, pooping

Oliver Gaspirtz

It’s better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

dancing, foolish, happiness, idiots, self-confidence, shyness

Oliver Gaspirtz

Democracy’s fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

Oliver Gaspirtz

Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express our thoughts in words. And when the other person hears our words, something gets lost in translation again, because words mean different things to different people. “A long time” may mean 10 hours to one person, but 10 days to another. So when a thought is formed in my brain, and my mouth expresses it in words, and your ears hear it, and your brain processes it, your brain and my brain never truly see exactly the same thing. Communication is always just an approximation.

approximation, communication, miscommunication, misunderstandings, translation, words, words-of-wisdom, writing

Oliver Gaspirtz

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.

art, artists, artists-quotes, being-different, being-yourself, being-yourself-quotes, environment, fitting-in, herd-behavior, herd-mentality, people, society, standing-out, unique, uniqueness