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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,502 people liked it

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,285 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,480 people liked it

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex
536 people liked it

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heaven, humor
876 people liked it

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: experience, mistakes, wisdom
531 people liked it

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: fashion
351 people liked it

"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heartbreak, love
513 people liked it

"[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
1,107 people liked it

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
— Jack Kerouac

339 people liked it

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
— Jack Kerouac

187 people liked it

"Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream"
— Jack Kerouac

130 people liked it

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."
— Jack Kerouac

180 people liked it

"The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

79 people liked it

"And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves."
— Jack Kerouac

33 people liked it

"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference."
— Jack Kerouac

36 people liked it

"a sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth"
— Jack Kerouac

13 people liked it

"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
878 people liked it

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."
— J.D. Salinger

254 people liked it

"The most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid."
— J.D. Salinger (Nine Stories)

tags: blue, daumier-smith-s, de, happiness, joy, nine, period, stories
108 people liked it

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."
— J.D. Salinger

117 people liked it

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy"
— J.D. Salinger

tags: happiness
122 people liked it

"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. "
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: life
83 people liked it

"When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: death
66 people liked it

"...when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

57 people liked it

"I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting."
— J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)

tags: truth
71 people liked it

"People are always ruining things for you."
— J.D. Salinger

tags: catcher, rye, salinger
35 people liked it

"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
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— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: friendship
54 people liked it

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron. "
— J.D. Salinger

18 people liked it

"People never notice anything"
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

20 people liked it

"And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

48 people liked it

"But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

18 people liked it

"Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos."
— J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)

7 people liked it

"God, how I hate it when somebody yells, "Good Luck!" at me when I'm leaving somewhere. It's depressing."
— Holden Caulfield (J.D. Salinger)

11 people liked it

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life
2,722 people liked it

"To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition."
— Woody Allen

tags: absurd, atheism, humor
372 people liked it

"It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel."
— Woody Allen

tags: absurd
249 people liked it

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it by not dying."
— Woody Allen

tags: life
215 people liked it

"Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right."
— Woody Allen

tags: sex
184 people liked it

"The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it."
— Woody Allen

tags: sex
196 people liked it

"If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
— Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

128 people liked it

"God is silent. Now if only man would shut up."
— Woody Allen

tags: god, humor, mankind, silence
177 people liked it

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
— Woody Allen

tags: success
121 people liked it

"I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable."
— Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

tags: humour, life
112 people liked it

"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."
— Woody Allen

tags: sex
112 people liked it

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."
— Woody Allen

97 people liked it

"My brain? That's my second favorite organ."
— Woody Allen

tags: humor
73 people liked it

"Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with."
— Woody Allen

85 people liked it

"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem."
— Woody Allen

97 people liked it

"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good."
— Woody Allen

44 people liked it

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