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"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
911 people liked it

"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
— J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)

tags: art
68 people liked it

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

183 people liked it

"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: writing
62 people liked it

"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."
— J.D. Salinger

82 people liked it

"That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: girls, holden-s, view
90 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,022 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,639 people liked it

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
3,026 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: learning, reading, seuss
2,124 people liked it

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,737 people liked it

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: humor
557 people liked it

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: humor, philosophy
350 people liked it

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)

tags: sympathy
1,753 people liked it

"Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it."
— David Sedaris

tags: humor, perception, retardation
420 people liked it

"We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail."
— David Sedaris (Naked)

tags: affection, alcohol, drinking, emotion, humor
212 people liked it

"I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."
— David Sedaris (Naked)

tags: changing, others
178 people liked it

"Shit is the tofu of cursing."
— David Sedaris

tags: profanity, shit, swearing
65 people liked it

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
— Plato

tags: love, poetry, song
691 people liked it

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
963 people liked it

"Music gives soul to the universe
wings to the mind
flight to the imagination
and life to everything"
— Plato

127 people liked it

"Those who tell the stories rule society."
— Plato

33 people liked it

"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings"
— Plato

28 people liked it

"Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

tags: memories
270 people liked it

"There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair."
— Haruki Murakami (Hear the Wind Sing)

tags: despair, insightful, writing
66 people liked it

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life
348 people liked it

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love
292 people liked it

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry
120 people liked it

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: love, morning
176 people liked it

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational
90 people liked it

"A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: words
47 people liked it

"This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me"
— Emily Dickinson

45 people liked it

"The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS."
— Emily Dickinson

26 people liked it

"Edward. Edward. My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either. And a world without Edward seemed completely pointless. Edward had to exist."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

tags: breaking-dawn, death, fate, life, love, soulmates, true, twilight
932 people liked it

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

423 people liked it

"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
— Hunter S. Thompson

130 people liked it

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
— Hunter S. Thompson

tags: life
78 people liked it

"Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex."
— Hunter S. Thompson

tags: sex
69 people liked it

"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream)

tags: drugs, excess
45 people liked it

"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. "
— Hunter S. Thompson

24 people liked it

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