Charles M. Schulz · 323 pages
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“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“There is nothing more attractive than a nice smile”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?"
"I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“Life is just too much for me. I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared..."
"What did you want... A chance to warm up first?”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“Aren't the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton... I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by... If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formations... What do you think you see, Linus?"
"Well, those clouds up there look like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean... That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor... And that group of clouds over there gives me the impression of the stoning of Stephen... I can see the apostle Paul standing there to one side..."
"Uh huh... That's very good... What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown?"
"Well, I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsie, but I changed my mind!”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?'
'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!"
"So what else is new?”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?"
"Well, I'm a lousy carpenter, I can't nail straight, I can't saw straight and I always split the wood... I'm nervous, I lack confidence, I'm stupid, I have poor taste and absolutely no sense of design... So, all things considered, it's coming along okay!”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“I feel sorry for little babies... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He's frightened! He needs something to cheer him up... The way I see it, as soon as a baby is born, he should be issued a banjo!”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“You know, in a way, 'Dear Santa Claus' is rather stuffy... Perhaps something a little more intimate would be better... Something just a shade more friendly..."
"How about 'Dear Fatty'?”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“All I wanted to do was be a hero... But do I ever get to be a hero? All I ever get to be is the stupid goat!"
"Don't be discouraged, Charlie Brown... In this life we live, there are always some bitter pills to be swallowed..."
"If it's all the same with you, I'd rather not renew my perscription!”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on but yourself!"
"Maybe I could blame it on society!”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“These rocks are a release for my pent-up emotions. When I feel all tied up inside, I just stand here and throw rocks into that vacant lot!"
"Hello, Charlie Brown, you blockhead!"
"Sometimes I think I'm kind of a vacant lot myself...”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said.
"DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT."
"I learned it from you," I told him.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.”
― John Irving, quote from A Prayer for Owen Meany
“We will say, then, that I am mad. I grant, at least, that there are two distinct conditions of my mental existence—the condition of a lucid reason, not to be disputed, and belonging to the memory of events forming the first epoch of my life—and”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Complete Stories and Poems
“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. ”
― Herman Melville, quote from Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."
"I know," said Pooh humbly.”
― A.A. Milne, quote from Winnie-the-Pooh
“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Interview with the Vampire
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