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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,220 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
10,347 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,761 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,627 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,013 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
6,534 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
6,812 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,096 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."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,584 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,256 people liked it

"The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses."
— John Irving

tags: cider, house, irving, living, rules, sad, wtf
70 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)

71 people liked it

"In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me"
— John Irving (The World According to Garp)

tags: humor
31 people liked it

"Never confuse faith, or belief – of any kind - with something even remotely intellectual."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

28 people liked it

"All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete."
— John Irving (A Widow for One Year)

17 people liked it

"…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself. "
— John Irving (A Widow for One Year)

20 people liked it

"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases"
— John Irving (The World According to Garp)

tags: humor
16 people liked it

"You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know."
— John Irving (The Hotel New Hampshire)

11 people liked it

"All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man."
— John Irving (The World According to Garp)

13 people liked it

"It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back."
— John Irving (The World According to Garp)

12 people liked it

"“Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may”"
— John Irving (The Cider House Rules)

7 people liked it

"People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers."
— John Irving (The Cider House Rules)

5 people liked it

""you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction"
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— Isabel Allende

45 people liked it

"'There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.'"
— Isabel Allende (Eva Luna)

32 people liked it

"When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity."
— Isabel Allende

9 people liked it

"Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change."
— Isabel Allende

tags: death
9 people liked it

"She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself."
— Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits)

7 people liked it

""This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice.""
— Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits)

6 people liked it

""The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.""
— Isabel Allende (The Stories of Eva Luna)

4 people liked it

"He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

tags: memories
46 people liked it

"To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

40 people liked it

"The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

tags: magico, realismo
21 people liked it

"Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

9 people liked it

"...his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

7 people liked it

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