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    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    ― Katherine Anne Porter
    tags: past
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    Gregory Maguire
    “It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
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    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: realist
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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
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: breakfast-brilliant, insults
    1982 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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    Tonya Hurley
    “If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.”
    ― Tonya Hurley, Homecoming
    tags: disappointment, expectations, ghostgirl
    216 likes

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    Emily Giffin
    “...recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void...”
    ― Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter
    tags: disappointment, loss
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    Sue Fitzmaurice
    “Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.”
    ― Sue Fitzmaurice
    tags: disappointment, expectations, inspirational
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: human-nature
    1404 likes



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