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#1

“I really should come with a warning label.”
― Tom Upton

tags: humor

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#2

“I'm not running away, I'm moving on.”
― Irvine Welsh

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#3

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination

3310 likes

#4

“You'll find that sometimes there is a huge valley between what we want to be and what we're capable of. ”
― Stephanie Kuehnert, I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone

22 likes

#5

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

84852 likes

#6

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

6451 likes

#7

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: maxims, moral, philosophy, reflections

355 likes

#8

“Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#9

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
― Anais Nin

tags: writing

1947 likes

#10

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humor, inspirational

67 likes

#11

“Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

tags: black-lizard, vintage-crime

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#12

“Feeling - what authentic human fun!”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

tags: crime, lizard, vintage

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#13

“I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

tags: vintage-crime-lizard

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#14

“In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workday lives of meaningless toin and suffering.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

tags: crime, lizard, vintage

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#15

“Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

tags: crime, dexter, lizard, vintage

36 likes

#16

“It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, preparedness

155 likes

#17

“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.”
― Virginia Woolf, The common reader: First and second series

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#18

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

21196 likes

#19

“Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.”
― Elisabeth Gaskell, Cranford

tags: equality, men, strength-of-character, superiority, women

73 likes

#20

“Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.”
― Tedd Arnold, Rat Life

tags: mystery, teen, young-readers

18 likes

#21

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31523 likes

#22

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20723 likes

#23

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13095 likes

#24

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

7944 likes

#25

“Please do not have a band, as I do not care for music.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#26

“What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century”
― Max Beerbohm

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#27

“The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: life

47 likes

#28

“Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance

tags: mystery, oscar-wilde

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#29

“I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after”
― Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance

tags: mystery, oscar, wilde

27 likes

#30

“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: oscar, wilde, writing

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