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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
— Erica Jong

18 people liked it

"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: chaos, discovery
130 people liked it

"Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

74 people liked it

"Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored."
— Elizabeth Wurtzel

30 people liked it

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
— James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time)

49 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,682 people liked it

"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."
— George Orwell

tags: age, life
35 people liked it

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
— Anne Frank (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl)

tags: hope, human, nature
464 people liked it

"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)"
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

15 people liked it

"I am supposed to be having the time of my life."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

48 people liked it

"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: god
107 people liked it

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
— Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
753 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
788 people liked it

"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: humor
55 people liked it

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
— Hermann Hesse

132 people liked it

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
— Sinclair Lewis

tags: fascism, freedom, politics, religion
333 people liked it

"So eager are our people to obliterate the present."
— Franz Kafka

18 people liked it

"Time is the longest distance between two places"
— Tennessee Williams

tags: distance, time
37 people liked it

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
1,226 people liked it

"I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you. "
— Bret Easton Ellis (The Rules of Attraction)

22 people liked it

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

tags: activism, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
2,150 people liked it

"Belize: The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate. "
— Tony Kushner

8 people liked it

"The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth."
— Kate Chopin (The Awakening)

25 people liked it

"I began to measure things in absence instead of presence."
— Marya Hornbacher (Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia)

18 people liked it

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

478 people liked it

"When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude."
— Elie Wiesel

86 people liked it

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
— Alice Walker

156 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
1,354 people liked it

"...you do not have too many boogeymen for me. You have just the right number."
— Rebecca Wells

tags: relationships
5 people liked it

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

tags: inspirational
3,283 people liked it

"He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing."
— Sherman Alexie (The Toughest Indian in the World)

87 people liked it

"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
— Anthony Burgess

13 people liked it

"They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything."
— Edith Wharton

12 people liked it

"Don't make everyone knows about your sadness."
— John Steinbeck

14 people liked it

"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."
— Benjamin Disraeli

tags: precious, time, truth
17 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,787 people liked it

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
— Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

tags: inspirational
240 people liked it

"Her glass wings are gone."
— Margaret Atwood (Lady Oracle)

15 people liked it

"Get off the cross, we need the wood."
— Tori Amos (Tori Amos: American Doll Posse)

29 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
3,779 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,164 people liked it

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: inspirational, optimism
203 people liked it

"We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more."
— Bill Clinton

10 people liked it

"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."
— Abraham Lincoln

155 people liked it

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: life
809 people liked it

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"
— John Greenleaf Whittier (Maud Muller - Pamphlet)

tags: life, words
1,277 people liked it

"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor
742 people liked it

"Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like."
— David Sedaris

tags: confinement, hell
19 people liked it

"The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul."
— Miranda July

20 people liked it

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence
1,305 people liked it

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