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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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  • #3
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    John Lennon
    “The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, life, perception, truth
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    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth
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    John Lennon
    “If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
    ― John Lennon
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    Freddie Mercury
    “Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!”
    ― Freddie Mercury
    tags: freddie, mercury, queen
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “It never got weird enough for me.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: individuality, uniqueness
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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  • #11
    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
    ― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
    tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

    (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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  • #15
    Voltaire
    “Dare to think for yourself.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: freedom-of-thought
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  • #16
    Voltaire
    “Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: food
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: writing
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Don Roff
    “Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.”
    ― Don Roff
    tags: humor, inspirational, writing
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    Philip Roth
    “I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don’t need that question answered.”
    ― Philip Roth
    tags: humor, writing
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  • #23
    H.G. Wells
    “No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”
    ― H. G. Wells
    tags: attributed-no-source, writing
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