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#1

“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

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#2

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

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#3

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81921 likes

#4

“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

tags: books, reading

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#5

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#6

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

tags: destiny

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#7

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

tags: goals

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#8

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

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#9

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

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#10

“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

tags: life

1966 likes

#11

“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

tags: living, sad

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#12

“Keep passing the open windows.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

tags: learn-it-live-it-love-it, perseverance, suicide

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#13

“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

tags: growing-up

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#14

“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

tags: food, humor, love

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#15

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

tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women

6527 likes

#16

“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

tags: happiness, man, trouble

3338 likes

#17

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

tags: attitude, circumstances, contentment, happiness

949 likes

#18

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

tags: women

12382 likes

#19

“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

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#20

“I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”
― Robert Frost

tags: disorganized, style-of-living

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#21

“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.”
― William Gurnall

tags: christian-living, fear, theology

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#22

“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

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#23

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

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#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

tags: beyonce, lady-gaga, mirror, trust

3281 likes

#25

“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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