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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “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
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: girl, marilyn-monroe
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    Oscar Levant
    “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
    ― Oscar Levant
    tags: genius, humor, insanity
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil
    tags: zarek
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    Franz Kafka
    “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

    [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing
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    Nora Ephron
    “Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.”
    ― Nora Ephron
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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    Coco J. Ginger
    “Life is wonderful when you're the one to write it.”
    ― Coco J. Ginger
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    John Lennon
    “It's weird not to be weird.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: conformity, individualism, paradox
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    Jim Morrison
    “When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder ... the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.”
    ― Jim Morrison
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    Jim Morrison
    “Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”
    ― Jim Morrison
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    Jean Dubuffet
    “For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.”
    ― Jean Dubuffet
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    Cornelia Funke
    “All writers are insane!”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: humor, insanity, writers
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    Derek Landy
    “Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.”
    ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer
    tags: fun, humor, humorous, insanity, lunatics
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    Cherise Sinclair
    “Awww, that's sweet. Nothing says ‘I love you’ like a well-made implement of pain.”
    ― Cherise Sinclair, Lean on Me
    tags: cherise-sinclair, erotica, lean-on-me
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    Fierce Dolan
    “An editor asked me what led me to write erotica. I replied, "A dirty mind, excess words, and an overactive sacral chakra.”
    ― Fierce Dolan
    tags: chakras, erotica
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    Maya Angelou
    “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
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    Criss Jami
    “Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”
    ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
    tags: absurd, absurdity, art, artist, ecstasy, experiment, experimentation, insane, insanity, intellectual, intellectualism, intelligence, madness, mind, out-of-my-mind, outrageous, philosophy, theory, thinking, thought, too-much
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    C.K. Webb
    “Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity...edit one more time!”
    ― CK Webb
    tags: ck-webb, editing, insanity, stories, writing
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    Criss Jami
    “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
    tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality
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    Orson Welles
    “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”
    ― Orson Welles
    tags: fashion, fuck, meaning, style
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    E.L. James
    “I don't make love . . I fuck . . hard”
    ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “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
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    Cherise Sinclair
    “the easiest way to keep a woman over your shoulder is with a hand on her ass, and the other between her legs.”
    ― Cherise Sinclair, Master of the Mountain
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    Tristan Taormino
    “You are the evil scientist of your desires. - Ignacio Rivera”
    ― Tristan Taormino, Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge
    tags: bdsm, sexuality
    27 likes



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