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#1

"When I was a young boy they called me a liar. Now that I'm all grown up, they call me a writer."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

tags: writing
2 people liked it

#2

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another"
— Ernest Hemingway

1 person liked it

#3

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: growth
776 people liked it

#4

"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential."
— Jessamyn West

1 person liked it

#5

"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
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— Alice Munro

tags: writing
3 people liked it

#6

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
4,889 people liked it

#7

"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without"
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: inspirational, life
1 person liked it

#8

"Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill."
— Edmund Morrison

tags: writing
1 person liked it

#9

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
23,270 people liked it

#10

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
13,838 people liked it

#11

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
5,384 people liked it

#12

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

tags: good, writing
2,341 people liked it

#13

"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
7,964 people liked it

#14

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
8,688 people liked it

#15

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

tags: deadlines, humor, work
6,492 people liked it

#16

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: humor
803 people liked it

#17

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: troubles
556 people liked it

#18

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
4,601 people liked it

#19

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

2,849 people liked it

#20

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know'."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge
1,730 people liked it

#21

"Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary."
— Jorge Luis Borges

16 people liked it

#22

"The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal."
— Jorge Luis Borges

9 people liked it

#23

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
— Jorge Luis Borges

13 people liked it

#24

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: cats, humor, life
892 people liked it

#25

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading
916 people liked it

#26

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!'"
— Hunter S. Thompson

136 people liked it

#27

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy
1,140 people liked it

#28

"Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
— Gene Fowler

tags: humor-writing-craft
958 people liked it

#29

"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'."
— Groucho Marx

tags: friends, humor, jail
1,114 people liked it

#30

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: absurd, cats, humor
614 people liked it

#31

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."
— Dave Barry

tags: humor
644 people liked it

#32

"Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door."
— Jerry Seinfeld

tags: dance, humor, music, radio, shower
400 people liked it

#33

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: books, criticism, humor, wit
475 people liked it

#34

"We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail."
— David Sedaris (Naked)

tags: affection, alcohol, drinking, emotion, humor
241 people liked it

#35

"The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
— Mark Twain

tags: children, humor
212 people liked it

#36

"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it."
— George Carlin

tags: humor
167 people liked it

#37

"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."
— Terry Pratchett (Moving Pictures)

tags: humor, life, movies
176 people liked it

#38

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
— Hunter S. Thompson

23 people liked it

#39

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
— Hunter S. Thompson

tags: life
121 people liked it

#40

"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)

83 people liked it

#41

"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."
— Hunter S. Thompson

30 people liked it

#42

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."
— George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman)

tags: food, love
123 people liked it

#43

"Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than blood."
— Goldie Nash

tags: family, love
107 people liked it

#44

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
— G.K. Chesterton

106 people liked it

#45

"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: ethics, firearms
82 people liked it

#46

"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."
— G.K. Chesterton

80 people liked it

#47

"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."
— G.K. Chesterton

57 people liked it

#48

"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak."
— G.K. Chesterton

33 people liked it

#49

"The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: sex
24 people liked it

#50

"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: golf
25 people liked it

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