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    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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    Van Wyck Brooks
    “No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.”
    ― Van Wyck Brooks
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    “I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
    ― Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Every Day
    tags: belief, wonder
    152 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: ethics
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    J.B.S. Haldane
    “The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
    ― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
    tags: imagination, misattributed-arthur-c-clarke, physics, science, universe
    116 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.”
    ― Woody Allen
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  • #8
    Quentin Crisp
    “In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.”
    ― Quentin Crisp
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
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  • #10
    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    ― Sid Ziff
    tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit
    1614 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: dorothy-parker, heterosexuality, homosexuality, humor, wit
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: cats, chaos, cooperation, organization, persuasion, pets, willfullness
    1421 likes

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  • #13
    Rachel Caine
    “Perv."
    He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?”
    ― Rachel Caine, Midnight Alley
    tags: funny, morganvillevampires
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: stupid-funny-love
    318 likes

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    Brandon Sanderson
    “You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

    It's really funny.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
    tags: humor, sarcasm
    2019 likes

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    William S. Burroughs
    “In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
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  • #17
    “It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated.”
    ― Elizabeth Cruickshank
    tags: battle-royale, funny, oxymoron, sick, twisted, vioolence
    60 likes

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  • #18
    Rowena Cherry
    “Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles”
    ― Rowena Cherry, Knight's Fork
    tags: futuristic, humor, knight-s-fork, romance, rowena-cherry
    744 likes

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  • #19
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
    27857 likes

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  • #20
    Mark Alders
    “Pain gettin’ cum spackle out of your pubes once it dries solid, you know.”
    ― Mark Alders, Shadows of the Mind
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  • #21
    “Nobody gets outta this life alive no matter what they give up.”
    ― Terence Audette
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  • #22
    Alex Sanchez
    “the church should just stay out of people's pants.”
    ― Alex Sanchez, The God Box
    tags: homophobia, organized-religion, religion
    101 likes

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  • #23
    Frida Kahlo
    “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
    1200 likes

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  • #24
    Lillian Hellman
    “People change and forget to tell each other.”
    ― Lillian Hellman
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  • #25
    Stan Rice
    “And what is an angel
    but a ghost in drag?”
    ― Stan Rice
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  • #26
    Patricia Briggs
    “Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound
    tags: auto-mechanics
    443 likes

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  • #27
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
    33846 likes

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  • #28
    Stephen Bishop
    “I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”
    ― Stephen Bishop
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  • #29
    Billy Sunday
    “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
    ― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ
    tags: automobile, car, funny, humor, religious
    8921 likes

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  • #30
    William James
    “To change one’s life:
    1. Start immediately.
    2. Do it flamboyantly.
    3. No exceptions.”
    ― William James
    tags: change
    457 likes



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