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    RuPaul
    “If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
    ― RuPaul
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    Diane Arbus
    “There's a quality of legend about freaks.
    Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.”
    ― Diane Arbus
    tags: freaks
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    David Sedaris
    “If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
    ― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
    tags: sympathy
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: wordplay
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  • #7
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
    165237 likes

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  • #8
    Steve Harvey
    “Men respect standards- get some!”
    ― Steve Harvey, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
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    Elizabeth Taylor
    “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
    ― Elizabeth Taylor
    tags: indulgence, virtue
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    Mindy Kaling
    “You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now?”
    ― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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    Justin Halpern
    “You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.”
    ― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says
    tags: humor
    186 likes

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    Francesca Lia Block
    “Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.”
    ― Francesca Lia Block
    tags: antidepressants, depression, drugs, sex
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    Jhonen Vásquez
    “And so, irritants, it is with this that I leave you. You are spared so that you can think of what it really is to live in a world that engenders a pain for which there is no comfort. Here is your product! You have the rest of your lives to think of this. And I suggest you think quickly, for a long life is never a guarantee.”
    ― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Stephen King
    “When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
    ― Stephen King, Storm of the Century
    tags: god, humor, religion
    7981 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: god, humor, life
    11623 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story...”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    John Berendt
    “Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.”
    ― John Berendt, The City of Falling Angels
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    Richard Bach
    “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
    Listen to it carefully.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    tags: conscience, encouragement, inspiration, life, morality, selfishness, wisdom
    1055 likes

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  • #21
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    Victor Villaseñor
    “And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses you had to water and giver fertilizer or they'd die. But weeds, indigenous plants, you gave them nada-nothing; hell you even poisoned them and put concrete over them, and those weeds would still break the concrete, ”
    ― Victor Villaseñor, Burro Genius
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  • #23
    Dr. Seuss
    “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: adulthood, childhood
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  • #24
    Daniel Clowes
    “Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!”
    ― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World
    tags: funny
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  • #25
    Joan Crawford
    “Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.”
    ― Joan Crawford
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  • #26
    Amy Winehouse
    “What kind of fuckery is this?”
    ― Amy Winehouse
    tags: amy-winehouse, fuck, profanity
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    Paul Neilan
    “It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If she wanted to think that apathy and independence were the same thing, good for her. Maybe she was right.”
    ― Paul Neilan, Apathy and Other Small Victories
    tags: apathy, humor, love, sex
    66 likes

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  • #28
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.”
    ― Ashleigh Brilliant
    tags: sarcastic-quotes
    108 likes

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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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  • #31
    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth
    3938 likes



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