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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspiration
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: wisdom
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    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton
    tags: sci-fi, wisdom
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Are you really going to work in that?" Maura asked.

    Blue looked at her clothing. It involved a few thin layering shirts, including one she had altered using a method called shredding. "What's wrong with it?"
    Maura shrugged. "Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realised how well my evil plans were working.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
    tags: blue, lol, maura, raven-boys
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    Christopher Marlowe
    “Make me immortal with a kiss.”
    ― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
    tags: kiss
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    Justin Halpern
    “See, you think I give a shit. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of shit? That's why I look interested.”
    ― Justin Halpern
    tags: humor
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Kim Harrison
    “Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'
    Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.”
    ― Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms
    tags: fiction, ivy, jenks, rachel-morgan, romance, supernatural, vampire
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  • #23
    Kim Harrison
    “The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does.”
    ― Kim Harrison, Early to Death, Early to Rise
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  • #24
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: life
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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  • #26
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her.
    That would be awesome.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
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    Gayle Forman
    “He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.”
    ― Gayle Forman, Just One Day
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    Gayle Forman
    “Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”
    ― Gayle Forman , Just One Day
    tags: wilhem
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  • #29
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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  • #30
    Rainbow Rowell
    “Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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