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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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
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    Mae West
    “I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, temptation
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    Mae West
    “I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mae West
    “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!”
    ― Mae West
    tags: appreciation, decadence, excess, indulgence, innuendo, over-indulgence, risque
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    Mae West
    “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: decadence, fairy-tales, innuendo, purity, risque, snow-white, virginity
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    Mae West
    “Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
    ― Mae West
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    Mae West
    “If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!”
    ― Mae West
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    Mae West
    “He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: fools, humor, paraphrased
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    Mae West
    “You are never too old to become younger!”
    ― Mae West
    tags: maturity, paradox, poetry, story, story-telling, youthfulness
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    Mae West
    “I've been things and seen places.”
    ― Mae West
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    Mae West
    “She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, innuendo, insult, metaphor
    281 likes

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    Steve Martin
    “Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: french, humor
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    Steve Martin
    “... you're nuts but you're welcome here.”
    ― Steve Martin
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    Steve Martin
    “If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: insignificance, wealth
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    Steve Martin
    “The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.”
    ― steve martin
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    Steve Martin
    “Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.”
    ― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
    tags: artists, self-aggrandizement
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    Steve Martin
    “I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.”
    ― Steve Martin
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    Steve Martin
    “Or is it that I think too much?”
    ― Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company
    tags: humor
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    Steve Martin
    “Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.”
    ― Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
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    Steve Martin
    “Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.”
    ― Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company
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    Steve Martin
    “You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
    Steve Martin”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: actor, films
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    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    ― Anthony G. Oettinger
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-groucho-marx, time
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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