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“I would burn down the world for you," he whispered fiercely. "Your world or my own. I would rip down the entire city with my bare hands without a second thought. I don't need to taste anything else, I don't need a comparison.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, Wicked as They Come

tags: criminy-stain

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“Dammit, woman! You're scent, your stupid bloody delicious scent lingering in every crevice of my body and my wardrobe, driving me nearly mad. Do you know what it's like to want something so badly, to have it so close, and still feel that it's out of your reach? Out of control?”
― Delilah S. Dawson, Wicked as They Come

tags: criminy-stain

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“Time to beat back the bunny hordes," he said gallantly,knowing that any blood-hungry animals in the area would be waiting outside for me.
He threw open the door, shouting, "Bunnies, prepare to meet your doom!”
― Delilah S. Dawson, Wicked as They Come

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#4

“Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

tags: beautiful, beauty, destiny, question, sad

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#5

“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

tags: death, real

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#6

“Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

tags: justice

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#7

“Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.”
― Jean Rhys

tags: lies, truth

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#8

“Organization does not benefit anyone else. The possessions we rarely use sit on shelves in our basements, attics, and garages—even while some of our closest friends desperately need them.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

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#9

“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

tags: americans, conversation, people, shallowness, talking, television

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#10

“For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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“Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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“The written word endures, the spoken word disappears”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

tags: written-word

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#13

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#14

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#15

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#16

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#17

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#18

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#19

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#20

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#21

“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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#22

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#23

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

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#24

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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#25

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#26

“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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#27

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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#28

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#29

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

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#30

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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