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#1

“Never trust a woman who wears mauve.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#2

“When I was your age, television was called books.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: book, fantasy, humour

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#3

“The only end in sight was Yossarian's own, and he might have remained in the hospital until doomsday had it not been for that patriotic Texan with his infundibuliform jowls and his lumpy, rumpleheaded, indestructible smile cracked forever across the front of his face like the brim of a black ten-gallon hat.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#4

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

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#5

“Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.”
― Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer

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#6

“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? ”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

tags: love

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#7

“[She was] sitting across from us, her legs pressed together to one side, like a slash mark. Pretty/professional.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: people

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#8

“I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.”
― Jeanette Winterson

tags: animal, eat, food, kill, vegetarian

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#9

“Let us revenge this with
our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I
speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.”
― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

tags: anger, empower, puns, revenge, shakespeare

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#10

“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

tags: friendship

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#11

“As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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#12

“I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

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#13

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: misattributed-kurt-cobain

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#14

“He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#15

“Oh, please. Your giant head is getting too big for this forest. Pretty soon, you're going to get stuck trying to walk between two tress. And then, I'll have to rescue you." I give him a weary look. "Again.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

tags: penryn

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#16

“There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.”
― Zoe Heller, What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

tags: insanity

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#17

“In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba, except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy.”
― Zoë Heller, What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

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#18

“Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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#19

“Always remember the acronym for "FEAR" can mean one of two things: Fuck Everything And Run or Face Everything And Recover.”
― Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

tags: acronym, fear

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#20

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology

2710 likes

#21

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

tags: life, prime-numbers

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#22

“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: labels, manners

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#23

“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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#24

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: books, truth

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#25

“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”
― A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

tags: humor, reading

459 likes

#26

“I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings.”
― A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

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#27

“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

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#28

“It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

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#29

“Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

tags: normal, perceptions

292 likes

#30

“(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

tags: baseball, sports

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