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    Carlton Mellick III
    “When I say something like "back when I was in high
    school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school.”
    ― Carlton Mellick III, Satan Burger
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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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    John Waters
    “It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, reading
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    John Waters
    “Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”
    ― John Waters, Role Models
    tags: books, wealth
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    John Waters
    “Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.”
    ― John Waters
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    John Waters
    “You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.”
    ― John Waters
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    John Waters
    “Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.”
    ― John Waters
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    Salvador Dalí
    “An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”
    ― Salvador Dali, The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali
    tags: elegance, women
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    Salvador Dalí
    “I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: drugs
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    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    David Wong
    “Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight. ”
    ― David Wong
    tags: faith, religion
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
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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
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    John Fante
    “We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.”
    ― John Fante, Ask the Dust
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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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    Richard Brautigan
    “I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.”
    ― Richard Brautigan
    tags: on-writing
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    Richard Brautigan
    “all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.”
    ― richard brautigan
    tags: life, purpose
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  • #21
    Cormac McCarthy
    “There is no God and we are his prophets.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: blasphemy, paraphrased, religion
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: life, story
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Carlton Mellick III
    “That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.”
    ― Carlton Mellick III, The Faggiest Vampire
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    Carlton Mellick III
    “The God of this planet was not worth the religion.”
    ― Carlton Mellick III, Satan Burger
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  • #28
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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  • #30
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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