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    Heinrich Böll
    “An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.”
    ― Heinrich Boll, The Clown
    tags: art, artist, love, woman
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: deep-thought, perfection
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    Anaïs Nin
    “They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.”
    ― anais nin
    tags: anais-nin, ladders-to-fire, this-hunger, woman
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.”
    ― anais nin
    tags: anais-nin, ladders-to-fire, love, stella, this-hunger
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.”
    ― anais nin
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.”
    ― anais nin
    tags: anais-nin, faith, ladders-to-fire, lost-faith, theft, this-hunger
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    Russell Brand
    “I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.”
    ― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
    tags: philosophy, plato, platonic, russell-brand
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    Russell Brand
    “Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.”
    ― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
    tags: russell-brand, self-destruction, talent
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    Azar Nafisi
    “She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.”
    ― azar nafisi
    tags: honesty
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    Jessica Valenti
    “The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best.”
    ― Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
    tags: feminism, purity-myth, virgin, virginity
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    Jessica Valenti
    “For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise.”
    ― Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
    tags: ethics, feminism, purity-myth, virginity
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels
    tags: brinksmanship, crazy, crisis, insanity
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: gonzo, happiness, risk
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

    Remembered line from a long-
    forgotten poem”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: sex
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Anaïs Nin
    “He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity. ”
    ― Anais Nin
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
    tags: empowerment, feminism, woman, women-s-strenth
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    Anaïs Nin
    “How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.”
    ― anais nin
    tags: burnout, intensity, stress
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon. ”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: critisism, destruction, worship
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    T.S. Eliot
    “I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: from-preludes
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    Marguerite Duras
    “When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.”
    ― Marguerite Duras, The Malady of Death
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    Marguerite Duras
    “Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime.
    Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”
    ― Marguerite Duras, The Malady of Death
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    Neil Gaiman
    “You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
    tags: life
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, fact, librarians, libraries
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing.
    In the water I am beautiful. ”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was tempted to write porn, imaginary parents would appear over my shoulder and read what I was writing; just about the point that I managed to banish the imaginary parents, real children would lean over my shoulder and read what I was writing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: neil-gaiman-on-writing, on-writing, porn, thoughts-on-writing
    37 likes



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