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"The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."
— Gabriel García Márquez

tags: books
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,312 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,138 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,625 people liked it

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion
1,359 people liked it

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money
1,255 people liked it

"Every woman is a rebel."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: rebel, women
244 people liked it

"A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep."
— Salman Rushdie

tags: poetry, poets
61 people liked it

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