Pearl's quotes

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"I’m restless as the devil & have a horror of getting fat or falling in love & growing domestic"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

7 people liked it

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self-respect and it’s these things I’d believe in even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all that she should be… I love her and that’s the beginning and the end of it."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

2 people liked it

"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

7 people liked it

"Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: youth
9 people liked it

""...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires..." (The Great Gatsby)"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

9 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
10,870 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,419 people liked it

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
1,546 people liked it

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: books, morality, reading, writing
755 people liked it

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories)

tags: sin
711 people liked it

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
— Oscar Wilde (The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose)

tags: curiosity, wisdom
127 people liked it

"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
— Oscar Wilde

69 people liked it

"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"
— Oscar Wilde

44 people liked it

"what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
— Charles Bukowski

82 people liked it

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
— Jack Kerouac

tags: failure, passion
144 people liked it

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

184 people liked it

"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?- it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

94 people liked it

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road: The Original Scroll)

113 people liked it

"beautiful insane
in the rain"
— Jack Kerouac (The Subterraneans)

44 people liked it

"Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

tags: freedom, happiness
32 people liked it

"LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

12 people liked it

"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: dust, faith, life, pixie, trust
137 people liked it

"Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
--Eddie's Wife"
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala)

tags: love
168 people liked it

"Kids chase the love that eludes them."
— Mitch Albom (For One More Day)

tags: love
22 people liked it

"Going back to something is harder than you think."
— Mitch Albom (For One More Day)

tags: life
23 people liked it

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
— Kurt Vonnegut

392 people liked it

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

201 people liked it

"I wanted all things to seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense.
And I made up lies, so
they all fit nice,
and I made this sad world
a paradise"
— Kurt Vonnegut

54 people liked it

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. "
— Augusten Burroughs (Magical Thinking: True Stories)

467 people liked it

"Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face."
— Augusten Burroughs

tags: confessions, humor, magical, thinking
104 people liked it

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson

83 people liked it

"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)

55 people liked it

"It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Hell's Angels)

48 people liked it

"Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba…"
— Hunter S. Thompson (Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century)

21 people liked it

"To err is human - but it feels divine."
— Mae West

tags: sin
66 people liked it

"We'll never be as young as we are tonight."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)

tags: age, youth
122 people liked it

"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to."
— Stephen King (Dolores Claiborne)

tags: bitch
183 people liked it

"I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

70 people liked it

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: heart-break, love
3,429 people liked it

"So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?"
"You're exactly my brand of heroin."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: cullen, edward, heroin, love, twilight
1,544 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
937 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,492 people liked it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
1,595 people liked it

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

tags: friendship
1,344 people liked it

"Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you."
— Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

tags: friendship, relationships
98 people liked it

"True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)"
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: friends, friendship, together, together-in-spirit, true-friends
93 people liked it

"There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met."
— Jim Henson (Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets)

tags: friends, friendship
86 people liked it