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#1

“Sometimes life leaves a hundred-dollar bill on your dresser, and you don't realize until later it's because it fucked you.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

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“There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.”
― Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know

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#3

“Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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#4

“High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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#5

“I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.”
― Jennifer Weiner

tags: certain-girls

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#6

“I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.”
― Sue Grafton, F is for Fugitive

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#7

“This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go a little berserk. It's threatening. Deeply. Because if I have to admit how profoundly I need kindness? I have to admit that I hid the me who deserves it down in a sadness well.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

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#8

“I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me--crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered with and now, wounded, go along in the way that they are able.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Ordinary Life: Stories

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#9

“I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.”
― Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly

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#10

“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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#11

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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#12

“A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.”
― Elissa Schappell

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#13

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#14

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#15

“We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two-hundred pairs. But it’s all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole

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#16

“Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

tags: life, optimists

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#17

“Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

tags: destiny, fate

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#18

“If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.”
― David Sedaris

tags: diaries, journals, justice, privacy

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#19

“It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole

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#20

“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

tags: lavender, love, magic, rosemary, salt, superstition

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#21

“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

tags: restraint, stoicism

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#22

“Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who’d lost their way, the ones who’d lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

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#23

“Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals because nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.”
― Ann Landers

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#24

“The things that happen to me just make me more me.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Gods in Alabama

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#25

“Nostalgia is a narcotic.”
― Elissa Schappell, Blueprints for Building Better Girls

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#26

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world
but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do
I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.
well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
― Rebecca Katherine Martin

tags: bizarre, feel, flawed, hope, imgaine, know, misattributed-frida-kahlo, people, person, read, strangest, think-strange, thought, world

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#27

“Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.”
― Sue Grafton, C is for Corpse

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#28

“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
― Mae West

tags: humor

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#29

“Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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#30

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: idealizations, love

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