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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
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  • #3
    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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  • #4
    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    tags: activism
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  • #5
    Dr. Seuss
    “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: troubles
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  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: seuss
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  • #7
    Dr. Seuss
    “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: humor, philosophy
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  • #8
    Dr. Seuss
    “You're off to Great Places!
    Today is your day!
    Your mountain is waiting,
    So... get on your way!”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
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  • #9
    Dr. Seuss
    “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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  • #10
    Dorothy Parker
    “There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humor, the-paris-review, wisecracks, wit
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  • #11
    Dorothy Parker
    “Time doth flit; oh shit.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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  • #12
    Dorothy Parker
    “I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humor
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  • #13
    Dorothy Parker
    “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: empty-nest, humor, motherhood, parenthood, parenting
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  • #14
    Dorothy Parker
    “It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
    tags: abortion, inspirational
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  • #15
    Dorothy Parker
    “So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
    Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews
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  • #16
    Dorothy Parker
    “Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: love
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  • #17
    If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor
    “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: achievement, authors, elements-of-style, favors, grammar, happiness, writing, writing-process
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  • #18
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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  • #19
    Dorothy Parker
    “Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
    wheelchair.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: health, money
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  • #20
    Dorothy Parker
    “If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns
    tags: classic-insult, harvard, humor, innuendo, naughty, yale
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  • #21
    Dorothy Parker
    “You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Algonquin Wits
    tags: attributed-no-source
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  • #22
    W.C. Fields
    “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
    ― W.C. Fields
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  • #23
    W.C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: cooking, drinking, food, humor, wine
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  • #24
    W.C. Fields
    “If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”
    ― W.C. Fields
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  • #25
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #26
    Mae West
    “I'm single because I was born that way.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: bachelorhood, choice, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, self-determination, singleness, singles
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  • #27
    Mae West
    “Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: complacency, morality, surprise
    906 likes



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