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    Dorothy Parker
    “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
    tags: horticulture, puns
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    “Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.”
    ― Russell Lynes
    tags: humor
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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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    Groucho Marx
    “I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: classic-insult
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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  • #8
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: college, semicolons, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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  • #13
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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  • #14
    Woody Allen
    “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: hedonism, humor, sex
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    Woody Allen
    “Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, 'Be fruitful, and multiply'. But not in those words.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: epithet
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
    tags: ash, evidence, inspiration, life, poetry, writing
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    Leonard Cohen
    “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
    tags: insomnia, sleeping-world, superiority
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  • #18
    Jeff Buckley
    “my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder"
    lover you should have come over-”
    ― Jeff Buckley
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  • #19
    “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
    ― Madonna
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  • #20
    “If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”
    ― Madonna
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  • #21
    Henry Rollins
    “Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
    ― Henry Rollins
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Henry Rollins
    “When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?”
    ― Henry Rollins
    tags: humor
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Dying
    Is an art, like everything else.
    I do it exceptionally well.
    I do it so it feels like hell.
    I do it so it feels real.
    I guess you could say I have a call.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel
    tags: death
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    Tori Amos
    “Get off the cross, we need the wood.”
    ― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: American Doll Posse
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    Tori Amos
    “I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare”
    ― tori amos
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    Tori Amos
    “The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink”
    ― Tori Amos, To Venus and Back
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: aging, life, suicide
    61 likes



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