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    Jeanette Winterson
    “What you risk reveals what you value.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “As your lover describes you, so you are.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
    tags: love, self-fulfilling-prophecy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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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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  • #7
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
    Go throw your TV set away,
    And in its place you can install
    A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
    Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    tags: books, humor, television
    6844 likes

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  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: temptation
    3875 likes

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  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: darkness, life
    135 likes

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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Virginia Woolf
    “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
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  • #15
    Rita Mae Brown
    “The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: gay, lesbian, lgbt, love, queer
    568 likes

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  • #16
    Ivan E. Coyote
    “I am a rare species, not a stereotype.”
    ― Ivan Coyote
    tags: butch, gay, gender-bending, gender-spectrum, labels, lesbian, orientation, rare, sexuality, stereotype, unique
    368 likes

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  • #17
    Jeanette Winterson
    “It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
    tags: depression
    52 likes

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  • #19
    Ali Smith
    “All short stories long.”
    ― Ali Smith, The First Person and Other Stories
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  • #20
    Ali Smith
    “Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”
    ― Ali Smith
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  • #21
    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    ― Anne Bronte
    tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns
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  • #22
    Jeanette Winterson
    “I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    232 likes

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  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
    19428 likes

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  • #24
    Jeanette Winterson
    “To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: mental-illness, society, world
    463 likes

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  • #25
    Seamus Heaney
    “It is always better
    to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.
    For every one of us, living in this world
    means waiting for our end. Let whoever can
    win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,
    that will be his best and only bulwark.”
    ― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
    tags: life, poetry, revenge
    197 likes

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  • #26
    Seamus Heaney
    “The end of art is peace.”
    ― Seamus Heaney
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  • #27
    Laura McNeill
    “Thank goodness for best friends. For true friends, the ones who love you no matter what.”
    ― Lauren Clark, Stay Tuned
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  • #28
    “Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: equality, fairness, feminism, freedom-of-choice, inspirational, truth
    1210 likes

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  • #29
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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  • #30
    “Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can.”
    ― Donna Lynn Hope
    tags: soul-mate, soul-mates, soulmate, soulmates
    71 likes

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  • #31
    Nathan Filer
    “Reading is a bit like hallucinating.”
    ― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall
    179 likes



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