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#1

“Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say”
― W.H. Auden

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#2

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
― W.H. Auden

tags: book

290 likes

#3

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

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148476 likes

#4

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

tags: vulnerability

1905 likes

#5

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

tags: love

1576 likes

#6

“Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.”
― W.H. Auden

380 likes

#7

“Bashful? She and her friends made Girls Gone Wild look like a quilting circle.”
― Kresley Cole , Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

tags: mariketa

21 likes

#8

“Ignorance is bliss, right? Well, knowledge is misery. And the truth hurts.”
― Mia Asher, Arsen: A Broken Love Story

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#9

“If you were expecting Prince Charming, I'm sorry. He's with his boyfriend.”
― Shayla Black, Wicked Ties

tags: gay-romance, jack

248 likes

#10

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

tags: life, love

3754 likes

#11

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: knowledge

988 likes

#12

“If you can do no good, at least do no harm.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

tags: mantra

836 likes

#13

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring

1848 likes

#14

“I was the least easygoing and carefree person on the planet. I was a storm cloud that ruined picnics, not something full of warmth and light. “I”
― Jay Crownover, Retreat

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#15

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: music, truth

2714 likes

#16

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

1621 likes

#17

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
― Jack Kerouac

1335 likes

#18

“Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.”
― John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

tags: fury, patience

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