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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Amelia Gray
    “Just because you made it warm doesn't make it yours”
    ― Amelia Gray, AM/PM
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Janet Evanovich
    “Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head."
    Eddie DeChooch”
    ― Janet Evanovich, Seven Up
    tags: humor
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    Lauren Oliver
    “I'd rather die my way than live yours.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: independence, lena-holoway, self-determination, self-reliance
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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
    “Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: marriage, romance, sex
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    John Cheever
    “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: readers-and-writers
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    Robin Benway
    “It's OK to not be OK”
    ― Robin Benway, The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: personal
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Patrick Ness
    “I’ll find you—

    Keep calling for me, Viola—

    Cuz here I come.”
    ― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
    tags: chaos-walking, monsters-of-men, patrick-ness, todd-hewitt, viola-eade
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    Patrick Ness
    “You went up a girl and came down a woman.”
    ― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
    tags: chaos-walking, mistress-coyle, monsters-of-men, patrick-ness, viola
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    Muriel Rukeyser
    “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
    ― Muriel Rukeyser
    tags: craft, inspirational, muriel-rukeyser, writers
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: importance, kiss, kissing
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there”
    ― Bukowski C.
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  • #23
    “Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.”
    ― James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending
    tags: humor, insanity, louisiana
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We can't stop here, this is bat country!”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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    Michelle Madow
    “It [soccer] would be much more interesting if every so often, the ball spontaneously exploded.”
    ― Michelle Madow, Remembrance
    tags: humor
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    Keith Richards
    “When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equalizer.”
    ― Keith Richards
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    Darynda Jones
    “There is a great need for a sarcasm font.”
    ― Darynda Jones, Third Grave Dead Ahead
    tags: humor, quote
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “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
    130126 likes



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