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  • #1
    John Kennedy Toole
    “A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.”
    John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

  • #2
    John Kennedy Toole
    “...When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.”
    John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
    sylvia plath

  • #8
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #9
    Jack Kerouac
    “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #10
    John Irving
    “If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
    John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • #11
    John Irving
    “What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
    John Irving, The Cider House Rules

  • #12
    John Irving
    “Keep passing the open windows.”
    John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

  • #13
    John Irving
    “In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.”
    John Irving, Until I Find You

  • #14
    Nora Ephron
    “I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
    most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #15
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #16
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #17
    Martha Washington
    “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
    Martha Washington

  • #18
    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    Joseph Conrad, Chance

  • #19
    John Irving
    “The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis”
    John Irving

  • #20
    Robert Frost
    “I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”
    Robert Frost

  • #21
    “We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.”
    William Gurnall

  • #22
    Jess Walter
    “And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?”
    Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

  • #23
    Jess Walter
    “...the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”
    Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

  • #24
    “Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”
    Lady Gaga

  • #25
    C.S. Lewis
    “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
    C.S. Lewis
    tags: god



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