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“If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my heart and high my head
I think 'How lucky are the dead.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life”
― Bertolt Brecht, Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays: Includes: In Search of Justice; Informer; Elephant Calf; Measures Taken; Exception and the Rule; Salzburg Dance of Death

“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage 
unless you're scared.”
― Eddie Rickenbacker

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
― Erica Jong

“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having,has a price.”
― Joan Didion

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You can’t change the music of your soul.

—In Esquire, 1967”
― Katharine Hepburn

“It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.”
― John Cage

“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
― Stephen Vincent Benét

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Berthold Auerbach

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
― Joseph Addison

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I am a part of all I have read.”
― John Kieran

“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.”
― Dorothy Parker

“He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In!”
― Edwin Markham

“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

“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

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe