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"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
2,033 people liked it

"You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: writing
120 people liked it

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

tags: life
1,321 people liked it

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."
— Stephen King

147 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time
1,775 people liked it

"When you grow up, your heart dies."
— Allison Reynolds, The Breakfast Club

6 people liked it

"Death should take me while I am in the mood."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Blithedale Romance)

tags: death, humor
76 people liked it

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
1,118 people liked it

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
610 people liked it

"Snoring keeps the monsters away."
— Judy Blume (Fudge-a-Mania)

tags: humor, snoring
51 people liked it

"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"
— Albert Camus

tags: coffee, sucide
179 people liked it

""I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious."
"
— Rita Rudner

tags: humor
92 people liked it

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy, humor
344 people liked it

"I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone."
— Steve Martin

40 people liked it

"Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.'"
— Jerry Seinfeld

23 people liked it

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
1,965 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
4,017 people liked it

"Take me from this earth
an endless night-
this, the end of life.
From the dark I feel your lips
and taste your bloody kiss.
"
— Anne Rice (Interview With The Vampire)

56 people liked it

"Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!"
— Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned)

tags: bad
52 people liked it

"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt"
— Anne Rice

tags: death
28 people liked it

"Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither."
— Anne Rice

tags: lestat, vampire
10 people liked it

"Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"

"Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.""
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass)

67 people liked it

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

tags: books, reading
895 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life
1,620 people liked it

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, men, women
615 people liked it

"Dispute not with her: she is lunatic."
— William Shakespeare (The Tragedy of King Richard III)

tags: insanity, women
114 people liked it

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, reading
303 people liked it

"When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

tags: invincible, teenagers, teens
238 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
9,218 people liked it

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: life, surrealistic
419 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,440 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,287 people liked it

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: anger, freedom, truth
761 people liked it

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
158 people liked it

"Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?"
— Ian McEwan (Atonement)

tags: writing
26 people liked it

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

tags: books
858 people liked it

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
— Mae West

tags: evil, temptation
511 people liked it

"Inigo: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.

Westley: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die. "
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
673 people liked it

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man
What is in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,
So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title,
Romeo, Doth thy name!
And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself....
- (Act II, Scene II)"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo And Juliet)

tags: love, romeo-and-juliet
465 people liked it

""The heart dies, a slow death,
shedding each hope like leaves...
... until one day there are
none. No hopes. Nothing remains.""
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

tags: death, hope
16 people liked it

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity
852 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,496 people liked it

"Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair."
— Edith Wharton

tags: humor
22 people liked it

"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?"
— Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence)

17 people liked it

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
1,724 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,830 people liked it

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,621 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

3,538 people liked it

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,134 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Jim Henson

tags: humor
5,896 people liked it

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