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"Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? ... Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy?"
— The Reader

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"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

tags: boys, hate, love
345 people liked it

"'Can you see the sunset from the west side?' .... 'You can see it from the east side too.'"
— The Outsiders

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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
— George Orwell (Animal Farm)

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"I wish I was a kid again. When I had all the answers."
— That Was Then, This is Now

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"Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4."
— 1984

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"'You know what happened to the ones that didn't believe Cassandra.' 'The Greeks got 'em.'"
— Rumble Fish

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"Iron Youth! Youth! We are, none of us, older than twenty years old. But young?.... That is long ago. We are old folk."
— All Quiet On the Western Front

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"'What is this?'.... 'That is a ruby.' 'What's that suppose to stand for? Bloodshed?' 'No, Passion. Taking a chance. Maybe a small reference to my past... And yours.'"
— Nice

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"'It doesn't matter if you win or lose; greasers will still be greasers, and socs will still be socs.'"
— The Oustsiders

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"He pulled his chair up to the desk and rolled a blank piece of paper into his typewriter. He sat there, waiting."
— Taming The Starrunner

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"... Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?"
— Burned

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"'Will I see you again?' 'Yes' 'When?'... 'Cuando los lagartijos corren'"
— Tiger Eyes

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"'I know, your getting littler and littler. You're shrinking.' Stupid people often say the smartest thing. Even Arnie knows I'm in a rut."
— What's Eating Gilbert Grape

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"We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them."
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
— Bill Vaughan

tags: democracy, voting
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"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence."
— Joan Baez

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"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."
— Alanis Morissette

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"Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."
— Edith Sitwell

tags: criticism, emotion, philosophy
7 people liked it

""Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place""
— Billy Crystal

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"Life itself is a quotation."
— Jorge Luis Borges

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"I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse."
— Craig Volk

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"I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty."
— George Burns

tags: sex
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"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
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— Joan Rivers

tags: mistake, sex, tramp, woman
78 people liked it

"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come,we are not."
— Epicurus

tags: death
34 people liked it

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
— Isaac Asimov

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"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."
— Erich Segal

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"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
— Andy Rooney

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"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
10,180 people liked it

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. "
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, success
127 people liked it

"If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: humanity, kindness, politcs
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"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

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"If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,235 people liked it

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
— John Lennon

tags: activism, beatles, materialism, peace, society, television
474 people liked it

"Living is Easy with Your Eyes Closed."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, blindness, ignorance, life
215 people liked it

"For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!"
— John Lennon

tags: applause, beatles, concerts, jewelry, music, stage-patter
129 people liked it

"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time."
— Nancy Astor

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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking
670 people liked it

"Mieux vaut faire, et se repentir, Que se repentir, et rien faire."
— Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Quatrains, LXXVIII

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"C'est à cause que tout doit finir que tout est si beau."
— Marcel Achard

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"Even a fool gets to be young once."
— American Gangster

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"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
— Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values)

24 people liked it

"In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane."
— Dean Koontz

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