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"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."
— William Faulkner

tags: revision, writing
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"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
4,972 people liked it

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

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,047 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,433 people liked it

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

tags: education, fashion
1,317 people liked it

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

tags: truth
1,518 people liked it

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

tags: imagination, life, money
1,217 people liked it

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: betrayal, friends
661 people liked it

"No good deed goes unpunished."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor
335 people liked it

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor
255 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,591 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,878 people liked it

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
3,082 people liked it

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,351 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,194 people liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
1,934 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,728 people liked it

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

tags: clothing
334 people liked it

"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away. "
— Raymond Chandler

tags: boiled, hard
37 people liked it

"The streets were dark with something more then night."
— Raymond Chandler

7 people liked it

"California, the department store state."
— Raymond Chandler

5 people liked it

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