Quotes - Terri (terrijd) (Lebanon, IN) Showing 1-30 of 53

#1

“Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.”
― Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle

tags: fiction, kitty-foyle, pretending

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#2

“I'll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he'll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

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#3

“I need, therefore I imagine.”
― Carlos Fuentes

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#4

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

12094 likes

#5

“If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.”
― Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: Library Edition

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#6

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

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#7

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

tags: love

1699 likes

#8

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#9

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

tags: death, life

17168 likes

#10

“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

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#11

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

6790 likes

#12

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31273 likes

#13

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, words

2962 likes

#14

“Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: humor

3689 likes

#15

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

14023 likes

#16

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: be-yourself, self-expression

5075 likes

#17

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

1501 likes

#18

“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns

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#19

“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper

tags: action, progress, travel

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#20

“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

tags: industriousness, inspirational

1179 likes

#21

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: lost-innocence, memories

5281 likes

#22

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing

2253 likes

#23

“Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”
― Wyndham Lewis

1149 likes

#24

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations

tags: grammar

1637 likes

#25

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

6859 likes

#26

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

tags: growth, poetry

1735 likes

#27

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

tags: books, library, longing

3465 likes

#28

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

2655 likes

#29

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

2758 likes

#30

“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
― Sharon Olds

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