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  • #1
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #3
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #12
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #13
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
    Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

  • #14
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #18
    Wilfred Owen
    “All a poet can do today is warn.”
    Wilfred Owen

  • #19
    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #20
    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #21
    Sylvia Plath
    “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #22
    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
    sylvia plath

  • #23
    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #24
    Mackenzi Lee
    “We're not courting trouble," I say. "Flirting with it, at most.”
    Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  • #25
    Mackenzi Lee
    “It's beginning to feel like he's shuffling his way through the seven deadly sins, in ascending order of my favourites.”
    Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  • #26
    Mackenzi Lee
    “Because women don't have to be men's equals to be considered contenders; they have to be better. That's the lie of it all. You have to be better to prove yourself worthy of being equal.”
    Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

  • #27
    Mackenzi Lee
    “Oh no."
    Percy looks sideways at me. "Oh no what?"
    I swallow. "I'd first like it to be noted that I am most certainly not a smuggler."
    "Monty..." he says, my name sopping with dread.
    "And," I continue overtop him, "I'd like you to both remember just how much you adore me and how dull and gloomy your lives would be without me in them."
    "What did you do?”
    Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  • #28
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #29
    E.E. Cummings
    “life's not a paragraph
    And death i think is no parenthesis”
    E.E. Cummings



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