var citat = new Array( "A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities. -Dylan Thomas ", "An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. Dylan Thomas ", "Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. Dylan Thomas ", "He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.Dylan Thomas ", "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record. - Dylan Thomas ", "Somebody's boring me. I think it's me. Dylan Thomas ", "Absence - that common cure of love. -Lord Byron", "A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. - Diane Ackerman ", "A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. - Lord Byron ", "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard ", "Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. -Dante Alighieri ", "The art of flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss. -Douglas Adams", "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde ", "Livet är en delikat balansakt mellan yrkeslivets tuffa krav och fritidens helande rekreation - Okänd", "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much - Oscar Wilde", "Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. - Oscar Wilde ", "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. - Oscar Wilde", "Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. - Adrian Mitchell ", "There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. - Charles Baudelaire ", "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - G. K. Chesterton", "A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) ", "The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) ", "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. - M. C. Richards ", "A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. - Robert Heinlein ", "The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. -Walt Whitman ", "All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. - Bobby Knight", "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. - Charles Caleb Colton", "An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. - Charles de Montesquieu ", "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly", "Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. - Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989) ", "Beneath the rule of men entirely great,The pen is mightier than the sword.- Edward Bulwer-Lytton ", "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. - Edwin Schlossberg ", "You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. Isaac Asimov ", "Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. -Jesse Stuart ", "Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde ", "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde", "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -Oscar Wilde", "After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, which is the most horrible thing in the world. - Oscar Wilde on Absinthe", "Let me be mad...mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world. - Marie Corelli", "Art is the soul of life and the Old Absinthe House is heart and soul of the old quarter of New Orleans. - Aleister Crowley" ) function getRandom(min,max) { return (Math.round(Math.random()*(max-min)))+min; } var getit = getRandom(0, citat.length) document.write( '' + citat[getit] + '' )