the price of a quote

i just bought a book of quotes... 2,548 of them... i got them on sale for 6.99... that seemed like a good deal per quote at the time... it would be alright if the quotes were categorized but they are, for the most part, random and unsearchable... so i will give it away as a birthday present. to myself.
I have just realized i am quite unquotable. i closed my eyes and opened the book and pointed to the middle of a page. The quote was, "we are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society". Hmmm... let me find some better random quotes. "Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies" and "a man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her" and "whatever deceives seems to produce a magical enchantment". All unrelated?... perhaps.

i think i would like to be misquoted. probably for the same reason i always answer untruthfully on survey questions. i think i would also like to be misunderstood. Ahhh... that should be easy enough. Nevermind (Nirvana). So, Happy Birthday to me... colon, right parentheses.
Here are some quotes that i like a little bit better:
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." Bukowski
"An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, a sensible man finds almost nothing ridiculous." Goethe
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics." Bukowski
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Emerson
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose." Bukowski
"Start every day with a smile and get it over with." Fields
"you have to die a few times before you can really live." Bukowski
"The rich are the scum of the earth in every country." Chesterton
"Bed is the poor man's opera." Italian Proverb
"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his abilities." Wilde