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That's a poem called "Resume" by Dorothy Parker. I love her, she is my favorite poet. This is another of her poems called "Frustration"

"If I had a shiny gun,
I could have a world of fun
Speeding bullets through the brains
Of the folk who give me pains;

"Or had I some poison gas,
I could make the moments pass
Bumping off a number of
People whom I do not love.

"But I have no lethal weapon-
Thus does Fate our pleasure step on!
So they still are quick and well
Who should be, by rights, in hell."

"Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators. "
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"'I did that,'” says my memory. 'I could not have done that,' says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually—the memory yields."
-Nietzsche again

"Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups."
-Once again, Nietzsche

"Man is free at the instant he wants to be."
-Voltaire

Live for the now, because the then is gone, and the may be might not.

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.

Any weakness or mistake can be exploited.

If fortune has presented you with an unexpected opportunity which you don't really deserve, the last thing you should do is correct the mistake.

If someone has the power to completely disarm you, to take you apart from the inside out, to turn their dreams into yours, to invade every single part of your life and marry it with theirs so you don't know whose is whose anymore, to bring you sobbing into their arms like the child you've always denied ever being and to destroy you utterly with a single glance... for God's sake, don't tell them!

There is always a price.

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Hope for the best ... but plan for the worst.

The future of the world depends on the decisions of a few people. Be one of them.

If you're going to do something that they can hold against you, then try something else first, so you can say it was last resort.

Being vague is always better than being specific. At least you have a margin, and you're often right.

Friends come and go - enemies multiply.

Witty remarks and dry humor always work best when people are trying to hurt you.

Never start on three, two is a much better substitute.

Always keep your eyes and ears open - trouble will strike the moment you let your guard down.

1984. Good choice. But I think I like, "We are the dead," better.

Or, in Winston's diary, "theyll shoot me i dont care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i don't care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother."

Ha, I wrote my senior paper on 1984. I know it inside and out. Damn good book, though.

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
-Thoreau

"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness."
-Crowley

"Only an educated mind can entertain a thought without fully accepting it."
- Aristotle


Kay, here's a riduculous one from my old english teacher;
"Negativity is a WASTE of energy"
- Rebecca Varda
Every day looking at that sign in the classroom it was so hard not to argue. Without negativity millions of events in the world would not have happened.

"It takes as much effort to dream as it does to do. So, do." -John Hall, a teacher at my high school.
"I'm not trying to imply here that length has anything to do with quality; I'm just saying that I wanted to write an epic, and in some ways, I succeeded. If you were to ask me why I wanted to do that, I couldn't tell you. Maybe it's a part of growing up American: built the tallest, dig the deepest, write the longest. And that head-scratching puzzlement when the question of motivation comes up? Seems to me that that is also part of being an American. In the end we are reduced to saying It seemed like a good idea at the time. -Stephen King, from On Being Nineteen, the introduction to the revised editions of the Dark Tower series.

"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home." -Glen Bateman, from Stephen King's book The Stand. (I tend to quote the man Mr. King as much as I can get away with; he's a brilliant, albeit strange, author, and I really admire him.)

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty." -The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

"A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good." -Voltaire

"It is true that there are men who, on the approach of severe pain, hear the very opposite call of command, and never appear more proud, more martial, or more happy than when the storm is brewing; indeed, pain itself provides them with their supreme moments! These are the heroic men, the great pain-bringers of mankind: those few and rare ones who need just the same apology as pain generally-and verily, it should not be denied them. They are forces of the greatest importance for preserving and advancing the species, be it only because they are opposed to smug ease, and do not conceal their disgust at this kind of happiness." -Nietzsche

"Everyone needs something to defend. Something to protect. Whether it's your country, a loved one, or even just your own ideals... never give it up without a fight. Even if you go down, at least you'll go down knowing it was the fight of your life." -Me