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    Elinor Glyn
    “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
    ― Elinor Glyn
    tags: inspiration, love, romance
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    Jane Goodall
    “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    ― Jane Goodall
    tags: inspiration
    3538 likes

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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
    tags: books, humor, reading
    4412 likes

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    Dumas Malone
    “The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.”
    ― Dumas Malone, Jefferson the Virginian
    tags: bold, boldness, courtesy, mind, politeness, scabbard, sheathed, thomas-jefferson
    484 likes

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    Jasper Fforde
    “After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
    tags: reading
    1866 likes

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    John Ruskin
    “To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
    ― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
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    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, True Love
    tags: love, weirdness
    21583 likes

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    Seán O'Casey
    “When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
    ― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]
    tags: hope, sun
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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    “I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: boyfriend, fame, grammy, humor, lady-gaga, music, relationship
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    Stevie Nicks
    “Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.”
    ― Stevie Nicks
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    Stevie Nicks
    “Maybe we were together in another life...in a parallel universe, maybe our paths are not supposed to cross twice, maybe your arms are not supposed to go around me. I hear about you now & then, I wonder where you are & how you feel. Sometimes I walk by & I look up to your balcony, just to make sure you were real-just to make sure that I can still feel you...it appears to me that Destiny Rules...”
    ― Stevie Nicks
    tags: lovers
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    Stevie Nicks
    “I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.”
    ― Stevie Nicks
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    Stevie Nicks
    “We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in the place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for and it really bums me out.”
    ― Stevie Nicks
    tags: feminism
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    Stevie Nicks
    “Drownin', in the sea of love
    Where everyone would love to drown.

    Stevie Nicks "Sara”
    ― Stevie Nicks
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Emilie Autumn
    “It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
    tags: fight, friends, friendship, kill, loyalty, strength
    3014 likes

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  • #19
    “It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”
    ― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
    tags: friendship, love, romance
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    “Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.”
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    tags: friendship, love
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    “I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: fame, gaga, lady, music, work
    238 likes

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    Russell Brand
    “I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.”
    ― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
    tags: beauty, fame, immortality
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: fame, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, popularity, quotes-for-women, womens-inspirational
    163 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: addiction, competition, lose, lose-everything, obsession, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, win
    39 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: karma, violence
    128 likes

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    “It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma.”
    ― Colleen Truscott Fry
    tags: dysfunction, dysfunctional, heartbreak, immaturity, karma, misery, revenge, self-pity
    112 likes

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  • #27
    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: writing
    3929 likes

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    Coco J. Ginger
    “My boy of steel. My man of honor. My perfect friend. My timeless soldier.”
    ― Coco J. Ginger
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  • #29
    George Carlin
    “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: fighting, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, peace, sex
    4257 likes

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    Mae West
    “Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, sex
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    George Carlin
    “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: bad-girls, christmas, santa, santa-claus, sex
    2356 likes



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