The following t-shirt designs from our catalogue have been tagged "Literature". Click on any thumbnail image to see all the formats that the design is available in.
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1984 "War Is Peace" T-Shirt War Is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The three slogans of the party, mantra of our Dear Leader Big Brother. Drink your Victory Gin, read... |
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1984 Opening Lines T-Shirt The classic opening lines to George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four: It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking... |
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42 T-Shirt The ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything: 42. Just remember to pack your Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy. |
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A Clockwork Orange T-Shirt One for all those droogs who like a bit of the old ultra-violence. Originally by Anthony Burgess, later popularised by Stanley Kubrick. |
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A Tale Of Two Cities Opening Lines T-Shirt The famous opening lines from Charles Dickens' seminal novel on the French Revolution: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of... |
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Aldous Huxley "Facts" Quote T-Shirt Facts do no cease to exist because they are ignored - Aldous Huxley on religion, science, politics.... |
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Atticus Finch: Attorney At Law T-Shirt Possibly the greatest literary hero of the twentieth century, our tribute to the Alabama lawyer from Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. Depicting the potential... |
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Bertrand Russell "Trouble With The World" quote T-Shirt The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - the British philosopher Bertrand Russell puts his finger... |
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Brave New World Opening Lines T-Shirt The opening lines for Aldoux Huxley's dystopian vision of the future: A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words... |
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Charles Bukowski T-Shirt Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. Charles Bukowski: laureate of American lowlife, author and poet (1920-1994). |
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Charles Darwin Tree Of Life Sketch T-Shirt Reproduced from a sketch from Charles Darwin's 1837 notebooks, this design shows Darwin's first known representation of what has since become known as the... |
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Choose Books T-Shirt No television. No computer. No iPad. Choose books. Read more. |
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Cover Me in Chaucer and Throw Me to the Thespians T-Shirt A typically flamboyant dramatic plea on behalf of all students of the classic playwrights and works of English literature. Cover me in Chaucer and throw me to... |
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Crime and Punishment Opening Lines T-Shirt Taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 Nihilist literary classic: On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he... |
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Das Kapital Opening Lines T-Shirt The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as 'an immense accumulation of commodities,' its unit being a... |
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Don Quixote Opening Lines T-Shirt The opening to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote; the 17th Century novel that many feel marked the beginning of modern literature: At a village of La Mancha... |
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Don't Panic T-Shirt ...first, it was slightly cheaper, and second, it had the words 'Don't Panic' emblazoned in large, friendly letters on its front... The famous cover text of the... |
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Dorothy Parker T-Shirt Purveyor of one of the most caustic wits in living memory, Dorothy Parker was a writer, poet and broadcaster. Blacklisted as a communist, honoured for her civil... |
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Dorothy Parker "Girls Who Wear Glasses" T-Shirt Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses - Dorothy Parker, the great American author, poet and wit, on the tribulations of the ocularly challenged. |
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Doubleplusungood T-Shirt times 3.12.83 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling. The reporting of Big Brother's Order for the Day in The... |
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Et Tu Brute T-Shirt Shakespeare's take on Caesar's ultimate betrayal. You too, Brutus? Choose white or black print either on the front or, for extra poignancy, the back. |
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Fahrenheit 451 T-Shirt Featuring an idea for the logo of Guy Montag's fire department. Our logo is based on the typical US fire department insignia, but features Bradbuy's novel's... |
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Forest Precedes Man, Desert Follows Him T-Shirt François René Chateaubriand's nineteenth century opinion on the inevitable legacy of humanity: The forest precedes man and desert follows him |
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Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad T-Shirt Propaganda straight from the pages of Animal Farm, this slogan was the mantra of the animals on George Orwell's Manor Farm. Features a pig in full combat... |
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George Monbiot T-Shirt The great George Monbiot: writer, journalist, environmentalist, political activist and all-round hero of ours. |
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George Orwell T-Shirt George Orwell, a.k.a. Eric Arthur Blair. Author of some of the finest books of the 20th Century including Animal Farm, 1984, Down and Out in Paris and London... |
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George Orwell "Rough Men" Quote T-Shirt People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf, a quote attributed to George Orwell (though... |
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George Orwell "Who Controls the Past" T-Shirt Nineteen eighty four's chilling dystopian vision on the power of media control: And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed - if all records told... |
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George Orwell Liberty Quote T-Shirt One of the greatest authors in British history, George Orwell a.k.a. Eric Arthur Blair. A hero of anyone struggling against tyranny, his philosophies on civil... |
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George Orwell Power Quote T-Shirt George Orwell voices his mistrust for those who seek to engage in revolutionary activities in order to establish a position of authority: Power is not a... |
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Germinal T-Shirt The title of Emile Zola's most famous and best loved work, the thirteenth novel in his twenty-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. Here stylised using... |
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Gimli: Certainty of Death Quote T-Shirt Certainty of death, small chance of success, what are we waiting for?. The Lord of the Rings' favourite dwarf in philosophical mood. |
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Gonzo Fist T-Shirt Based on a design used by the Hunter S Thompson's campaign to be elected Sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. The two thumbed, clenched fist is depicted clutching a... |
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HAL9000: "I'm Sorry Dave" T-Shirt Chilling words from 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL9000 - I'm Sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that, depicted here as the red camrea-eye that appears throughout... |
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Hitch-Hikers' Guide "In The Beginning" T-Shirt The opening lines to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, part two of the five-part Hitch Hikers' Guide To The Galaxy trilogy; probably the greatest... |
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Hunter S Thompson: Andy Warhol Style T-Shirt Hunter S Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and king of Gonzo journalism in the style of Andy Warhol's famous Marilyn Monroe print. |
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Hunter S Thompson: Drugs, Alcohol, Violence, Insanity T-Shirt Gonzo's premier exponent and gun-toting psychedelic genius, Hunter S Thompson, with his views on narcotics, firearms and mental instability: I hate to... |
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I Do Crazy Ivans T-Shirt Conn, sonar! Crazy Ivan!. Made famous by Tom Clancy's Cold War classic The Hunt For Red October, the Crazy Ivan was a manoeuvre performed by Soviet submarines... |
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J'Accuse T-Shirt The famous headline taken from an open letter written by Émile Zola to the French newspaper L'Aurore in 1898 accusing the French government of anti-Semitism... |
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Jack Kerouac "Road To Heaven" Quote T-Shirt Taken from On The Road, Beat generation hero Kerouac's most famous work. Pass here and go on. You're on the road to heaven |
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Jane Austen's Persuasion Opening Lines T-Shirt The opening lines of Jane Austen's last published novel: Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Sommersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never... |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Enslaved" Quote T-Shirt None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The author of Faust theorises on the perceptions versus the realities of... |
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Karl Marx T-Shirt The father of communism and author of Das Kapital, the great Karl Marx. Includes one of his most famous quotes on the reverse: Workers of the world unite. You... |
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Kurt Vonnegut "So It Goes" T-Shirt Frequent refrain in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five which coincides with any theme of death appearing during the novel. |
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Let's Kill all the Lawyers T-Shirt Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2, Act 4, scene ii: DICK The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. |
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Leviathan T-Shirt The amazing image from the original title page etching from Thomas Hobbes' 1651 book Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall... |
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Lord of All The Animals T-Shirt An eloquent dismantling of the role of humanity taken from Old Major's speech to the collected animals in George Orwell's Animal Farm: Man is the only... |
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Lord What Fools These Mortals Be: Shakespeare Quote T-Shirt Taken from Act 3 of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The mischievous Puck ridicules the foolish ways in which passions cause humans to act. |
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Love All, Trust A Few, Do Wrong To None. T-Shirt Wise words of advice from the Countess of Rousillon in William Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well, Act 1, Scene I. |
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Lower-Upper-Middle Class T-Shirt From George Orwell's The Road To Wigan Pier: I was born into what you might describe as the lower-upper-middle class. The upper-middle class, which had its... |
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Mark Twain "Schooling" Quote T-Shirt The value of a good school vs the value of a good education, as evidenced as far back as the 19th century by Mark Twain: I have never let my schooling interfere... |
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Marvin T-Shirt What to do with a maniacally depressed robot? You think you've got problems, what are you supposed to do if you are a maniacally depressed robot? Life, don't... |
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Moby Dick Opening Lines T-Shirt Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville's introduction to his novel about a man (Captain Ahab) and an enormous marine mammal (Moby Dick). Possibly the more famous... |
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Noam Chomsky "Terrorism" Quote T-Shirt Sometime linguistic sage, sometime political activist. Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism |
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Oceania Is At War With Eastasia T-Shirt Another t-shirt design inspired by George Orwell's 1984. Minitrue, the ministry of truth, brings you footage of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam... |
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Omnishambles T-Shirt The lexicon from The Thick Of It that has been named the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year. To the uninitiated, it is defined as meaning a... |
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On The Origin Of Species Opening Lines T-Shirt The opening lines to Charles Darwin's most famous publication, On The Origin Of Species: When on board H.M.S. Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with... |
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On The Origin Of Species Word Cloud T-Shirt A tag cloud based on the entire text of Charles Darwin's seminal work. The size of each word representing its frequency of appearance in Darwin's historic... |
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One Hundred Percent Prole T-Shirt And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the... |
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Patrick Bateman: American Psycho T-Shirt Buff. Armani suit. Patent-leather slip-ons by Baker-Benjes. Silk Dunhill tie. Hand axe. |
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Peter Cook T-Shirt Classic British satirist who was the former proprietor of Private Eye and gave us, amongst many other things, Not Only... But Also. |
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Punctuation Marks T-Shirt Guillemets, brackets, full stop, semicolon, dash, ellipsis, apostrophe, hyphen, forward slash, exclamation marks, quotation mark, question mark, colon, comma... |
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Ragged-Trousered Philanthropist T-Shirt A tribute for those who identify with Robert Tressell's seminal novel on the birth of British socialism. |
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Richard Dawkins Is God T-Shirt Scourge of the folly of religion. Critic of creationism. Atheist. Humanist. Genius. |
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Robinson Crusoe Opening Lines T-Shirt The opening lines of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel detailing the adventures of the famous shipwrecked sailor: I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a... |
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RP McMurphy Fishing Tours T-Shirt Operating out of Siuslaw Bay, Oregon, not too far from the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. From Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, we doff our caps to... |
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Samuel Johnson "Patriotism" Quote T-Shirt Author of the ground breaking A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755, Dr Johnson's most famous quotation espouses his views on those who will appeal to... |
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Shakespeare "Hell Is Empty" Quote T-Shirt A fairly negative view of the world taken from Shakespeare's The Tempest: Hell is empty, And all the devils are here (1.2.214-15). |
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Share And Enjoy T-Shirt Share and Enjoy is, of course, the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints division, which now covers the major land... |
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Spike Milligan "I Told You I Was Ill" T-Shirt Author, comedian, Goon and scourge of Hitler and Muzak. The funniest person of the last 1000 years (according to a BBC poll), together with his epitaph: I... |
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Stephen Fry T-Shirt Featuring a stylised image of the face of the great Stephen John Fry composed of a quote of his describing his philosophy of his purpose in life: I am a lover... |
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T.S. Eliot "How Far" Quote T-Shirt Poet and playwright Thomas Stearns Eliot on the need to take a risk every once in a while: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how... |
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Team Capulet T-Shirt Forget team Edward, team Jacob or any other angst-ridden, short-term, teenage sobriquet. Profess your allegiance to the Capulets of Shakespeare's Romeo and... |
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Team Montague T-Shirt Show that you side with the family of Romeo Montague. Proclaim yourself a proud member of the Shakespearean Team Montague. |
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The ABC of Radicalism T-Shirt A subversive take on the typical A is for Apple children's poster listing radicals, revolutionaries, civil rights activists and freedom fighters throughout... |
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The ABC of Radicalism Canvas Art Print Perfect for any child's bedroom wall: teach them their alphabet as well as their history with our tribute to radicals throughout history. The full list: A is... |
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The All Singing All Dancing Crap of the World T-Shirt One of Durden's scathing rants about society's futile search for happiness through consumerism: You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the... |
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The Apostrophe Protection Society T-Shirt Dont you just hate it when people cant seem to get the hang of the humble apostrophe? Every week we see literally 100's of examples of it's improper use... |
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The Catcher In The Rye Opening Lines T-Shirt The opening lines from JD Salinger's original ode to teen angst: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I... |
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The First Rule of Thesaurus Club T-Shirt Taking our lead from Fight Club's Tyler Durden, but given a literary slant: The first rule of Thesaurus Club: You do not converse, chat, speak, discuss... |
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The Great Gatsby T-Shirt The tipple of choice for all West Egg wannabe-socialites: 5 parts dry gin, 3 parts French vermouth and a dash of orange bitters: the classic Gin Martini. In... |
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The Trial Opening Lines T-Shirt The Trial by Franz Kafka is one of the greatest pieces of dystopian literature. The protagonist, known only as Josef K., awakes to find himself trapped in a... |
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This T-Shirt Intentionally Left Blank T-Shirt The concept of the glorious juxtaposition of contradictory text (this page intentionally left blank) on no-longer blank page writ large on a t-shirt (or mug). |
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Thought Police T-Shirt The badge of the dreaded Thinkpol (Thought Police), working under Miniluv (The Ministy of Love) with responsibility to ensure that the citizenry engage only... |
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Tyler Durden Fight Club T-Shirt Tyler Durden in his own words: All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and... |
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Victor Hugo T-Shirt A sketch of the nineteenth century French author and poet. The text behind is the opening lines of Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, published in 1831. |
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Victor Hugo "Idea" Quote T-Shirt On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées - Victor Hugo; frequently paraphrased as No army can stop an idea whose time has... |
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Vogon Constructor Fleet T-Shirt Essential wear for any aspiring bureaucratically-minded, bad-tempered, officious, callous and poetry-loving, intergalactic construction worker. This t-shirt... |
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Voltaire "Atrocities" Quote T-Shirt A quotation taken from Voltaire's 1765 work Questions sur les miracles on the danger on fundamentalist religion: Those who can make you believe absurdities... |
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Voltaire "Right and Wrong" Quote T-Shirt It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, espouses the questioning... |
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Voltaire "Vanquished" Quote T-Shirt Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated. Voltaire's most famous of quotes, accompanied by a Christian... |
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We Can't Stop Here, This Is Bat Country T-Shirt Dr. Gonzo: Let's give the boy a lift. Raoul Duke: What? No. We can't stop here. This is bat country. In the style of Ralph Steadman, Hunter S Thompson's... |
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Will Self T-Shirt Modern-day literary icon Will Self, author of some of the finest modern satire including The Book of Dave and How the Dead Live. |
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William S Burroughs T-Shirt The great American counter-culture novelist quoted on his inherent dislike for the mainstream: How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity |
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William Shakespeare T-Shirt The Bard of Avon, and image of the greatest playwright and writer in the history of the English language, comprised of famous quotes from his plays. |
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Write The Other Way T-Shirt Nobel Prize winning Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez on nonconformity: If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. This quote was used as an epigraph in... |