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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Elizabeth Taylor
    “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
    ― Elizabeth Taylor
    tags: indulgence, virtue
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
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    Ved Mehta
    “Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
    ― Ved Mehta, All for Love
    tags: conversation
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: life, unfairness
    3226 likes

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  • #6
    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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  • #10
    Arden Aoide
    “...what do you want to know?
    Usual stuff. Serious relationships, age, whether you eat babies. :-D

    I’m 30. I think babies are tasty, but empty calories, and I’ve had one long-term serious relationship...”
    ― Arden Aoide, Club Dishabille
    tags: alex, dahlia, texting
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  • #11
    Arden Aoide
    “And he waited. He felt like he was going to throw up. What the fuck was he doing? Hadn’t he learned anything? It was one thing to flirt about sex, but this wasn’t flirting. This was pulling your heart out of your chest and giving it to someone who might not like blood all over their floor. He’d already put himself out there with the note and now he wasn’t even pretending to be subtle. Physical sadist and emotional masochist.”
    ― Arden Aoide, Club Dishabille
    tags: alex
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  • #12
    Tiffany Reisz
    “Good men don't hit women. Good men only hit the women who want to be hit.”
    ― Tiffany Reisz, The Angel
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    Chuck Klosterman
    “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
    tags: art, love, profound
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  • #14
    Brian McGreevy
    “And remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane.”
    ― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
    tags: flesh, profane, remember, sacred
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    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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  • #16
    C.D. Reiss
    “God,' he said, 'I have to have you.'
    'Take me. Own me. Use me. Pick a verb. Just please.'
    'Fuck you. I'm going to fuck you. That's my verb.”
    ― C.D. Reiss, Resist
    tags: bdsm, hot
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  • #17
    C.D. Reiss
    “Was there anyone before you?

    You might have thought so at the the time.

    I feel like no one's ever loved me before.

    I'm sure they did their best, but you always belonged to me.”
    ― C.D. Reiss, Resist
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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    John Keats
    “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
    for their religion--
    I have shuddered at it,
    I shudder no more.
    I could be martyred for my religion.
    Love is my religion
    and I could die for that.
    I could die for you.
    My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: love, martyrdom, self-sacrifice
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  • #20
    C.D. Reiss
    “I want to be your last. I want to ruin you for other men.”
    ― C.D. Reiss, Submit
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  • #21
    C.D. Reiss
    “This is us together. I own it. This body is my plaything. Your ache is mine. Your orgasm is mine. Your hunger is mine. Your dirty thoughts are mine.”
    ― C.D. Reiss, Control
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  • #22
    Aldous Huxley
    “Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that of Martha.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
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  • #23
    Alessandra Torre
    “Death. It is a strange stalker, one that we spend our whole lives running from, some more successful than others.”
    ― Alessandra Torre, Do Not Disturb
    tags: death, death-and-dying, dying, stalking, suspense
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: crowds, intelligence, mob-rule, mobs, people
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  • #25
    Dan Simmons
    “Mobs have passions, not brains.”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
    tags: intelligence, mobs, passion
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  • #26
    B.F. Skinner
    “The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.”
    ― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
    tags: crowds, mobs
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  • #27
    “If there is one good thing about an angry mob, it's that they are so focused on being angry and mobbish that they sometimes miss little things. Things like a horse-drawn cart being driven by the very person who has made them so angry and mobbish in the first place.”
    ― Cuthbert Soup, Another Whole Nother Story
    tags: angry, good-thing, mobs, overlook
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: angry-people, arguments, bickering, brothers, bullies, causes, comedy, commonsense, crazy-people, disputes, family, friends, humor, mass-delusion, mobs, nonsense, relationships, ridiculous, riots, siblings, sillyness, sisters, stupidity, truth, tsloama, wit
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  • #29
    Paul Acampora
    “Do you want to be in our mob?" Elena asks him.
    "When did we get a mob?" he says.
    "We don't have one yet. I'm working on it."
    Michael turns to me.
    "It's got something to do with books."
    "In that case," says Michael, "I'm in.”
    ― Paul Acampora, I Kill the Mockingbird
    tags: books, mobs
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  • #30
    C.D. Reiss
    “Were you feeling all right?"
    "No, not at all."
    "Bellyache?"
    "Yeah, a two-month bellyache called Vivian-itis. Symptoms include desperate longing and inability to do anything but feel like a douchebag. Patient can't do shit on the field but stand there like an ass, wondering what the fuck he's doing with his life. It's chronic. No known cure.”
    ― C.D. Reiss, HardBall
    12 likes



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