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    William S. Burroughs
    “In lifeproof houses they hover over the young, sop up a little of what they shut out. Only the young bring anything in, and they are not young very long.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers."
    "I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said.
    "Then, for a beginner," I said, "you do it dashed well.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves
    tags: english, humor, humour, jeeves, jeeves-and-wooster, retort
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    Albert Camus
    “Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come...”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
    tags: absurdism, absurdist, despair, french-literature, resignation
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    Harold Bloom
    “To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also.”
    ― Harold Bloom, Eugene O'Neill
    tags: drama, literary-criticism, the-iceman-cometh, tragedy
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    “We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.”
    ― William L. Hubbard, Complicity and Conviction: Steps Toward an Architecture of Convention
    tags: architecture, art, complicity, convention
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    Eugene O'Neill
    “Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle.”
    ― Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh
    tags: apathy, drama, resignation
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    Jonathan Goldstein
    “The first hands he heard banging at the outside walls felt like nails pushing into his temples. Then there were more hands. Pounding. Punching. Scratching. Then kicks and shrieking that even drowned out the sound of the rain.

    The worst was when Ham could make out individual voices. He could hear their neighbor Zebeleh and her little daughter Ariel”
    ― Jonathan Goldstein, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!
    tags: bible, noah, religion
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    Eugene O'Neill
    “You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.”
    ― Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh
    tags: humorous-quotes, working
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Naked Mr. America, burning frantic with self bone love, screams out: "My asshole confounds the Louvre! I fart ambrosia and shit pure gold turds! My cock spurts soft diamonds in the morning sunlight!”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    tags: naked-lunch
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “The first of the telegrams arrived shortly after noon, and Jeeves brought it in with the before-luncheon snifter. It was from Aunt Dahlia, operating from Market Snodsbury, a small town of sorts a mile or two along the main road as it leaves her country seat.
    It ran as follows:

    Come at once. Travers.

    And when I say it puzzled me like the dickens, I am understating it, if anything. As mysterious a communication, I considered, as was ever flashed over the wires. I studied it in a profound reverie for the best part of two dry Martinis and a dividend. I read it backwards. I read it forwards. As a matter of fact, I have a sort of recollection of even smelling it. But it still baffled me.”
    ― Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: living
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    Henri Murger
    “The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
    ― Henry Murger
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
    "The mood will pass, sir.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    tags: appearance, bad-mood, clothes, dejection, humor
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    tags: bad-mood, disgruntlement, humor
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    Rebekah Crane
    “You're my spare tire, Kieran. You always need a spare tire in Cleveland. For the pot holes of life.”
    ― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down
    tags: life, love, potholes, romance, spare-tire
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    Caterina Passarelli
    “I finally let someone else in and now the weight of what happened to me isn’t so heavy to carry around.”
    ― Caterina Passarelli, The Power of Salvation
    tags: chicago, contemporary-romance, dark-romance, love-story, orphan, romance, romance-novel
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    John Keats
    “I can bear to die - I cannot bear to leave her.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: romance
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    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, Kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: bed, kiss, romance
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    Sarah Winman
    “There's something about first love, isn't there? she said. It's untouchable to those who played no part in it. But it's the measure of all that follows.”
    ― Sarah Winman, Tin Man
    tags: love
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    “Funny how you can’t turn that off, isn’t it?” Ledalus laughed, scoffing as she crossed her arms over her chest. “Does it hurt? Loving someone who can’t love you back?”
    ― Victoria Cerises, Grave Delights
    tags: lesbian-romance, love-hurts, lovers-to-enemies, lycans, romance, vampires, vampires-paranormal-romance
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    “Our partners can add sweet dimensions to our lives, but for us to be utterly fulfilled we need to be totally aligned with our own sensuality.”
    ― Lebo Grand
    tags: aligned, dimensions, fulfilled, love, lovemaking, relationship-quotes, romance, sensual, sensuality, sweet-romance
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    Tanja Radman
    “I saw us in some lost future, myself with a long beard, and her with silver streaks entwined in her auburn hair. My son would already be proud of the strength of his own son.”
    ― Tanja Radman, Republic of Stone
    tags: fantasy, historical-fantasy, historical-fiction, romance
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    Terese Marie Mailhot
    “You are such a home to me.”
    ― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
    tags: family, home, love, romance
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    Tiana Warner
    “I took Lysi’s hand, deciding that as long as we had each other, we would be all right.”
    ― Tiana Warner, Ice Kingdom
    tags: cute, gay, hand-holding, lgbt, love, romance
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    “I'm stuck on rewind, staring at memories of us and the life we lost, wondering how I got this wrong.”
    ― Fabiola Francisco, Memories of Us
    tags: emotional-quotes, romance, romance-book-quotes, romance-love-heartache, second-chance, second-chance-at-love, second-chance-romance
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    Lisa Berne
    “But there IS a moral to the story, my dears. It’s this: I hope you’ll always follow your dreams—and settle for nothing less than whatever is the best for you.”
    ― Lisa Berne, Engaged to the Earl
    tags: inspirational, life-and-living, life-lessons, love, romance, wisdom
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    Melissa Tagg
    “But I don't want to spend my life letting my pain be the lens through which I see the world.”
    ― Melissa Tagg, Now and Then and Always
    tags: christian-fiction, inspirational, romance
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    J.T. Geissinger
    “Rocky beginnings are par for the course for every great romance.”
    ― J.T. Geissinger, Dangerous Beauty
    tags: love-quotes, romance
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    Shilo Niziolek
    “Afterward, she would finally come to understand what it meant to be human, what it felt like when the wrong man loves a woman, how the touch of a hand on her back--placed at the exact spot where the shoulder blades end and before the spine begins--can feel like the way that wings beat in the darkest part of the night.”
    ― Shilo Niziolek, The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magical Realism
    tags: bad-relationships, experience, human, love, magic, magical-reaism, relationships
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