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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #3
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    ― Hemingway, Ernest
    tags: drinking
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  • #4
    “Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.”
    ― John Russell
    tags: wisdom
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  • #5
    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: katharine-hepburn
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  • #6
    Terry Pratchett
    “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: books-reading
    5884 likes

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  • #8
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
    ― Nicolas Chamfort
    tags: god, joy, life, spirituality
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  • #10
    David Sedaris
    “If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
    ― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
    tags: sympathy
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
    5985 likes

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  • #12
    Anton Chekhov
    “If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.”
    ― Anton Chekhov, Notebook of Anton Chekhov
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  • #13
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    Voltaire
    “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

    (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life
    1348 likes

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  • #15
    Voltaire
    “I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #16
    Freddie Mercury
    “Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!”
    ― Freddie Mercury
    tags: freddie, mercury, queen
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
    tags: attraction, co-dependence, divorce, idealism, idealists, marriage, narcissism, sociopathology, the-rules-of-attraction, victims-of-narcissists
    733 likes

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    Suzanne Finnamore
    “I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.”
    ― Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
    tags: cheating, divorce, husband, infidelity, marriage, seperation
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    Suzanne Finnamore
    “I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.”
    ― Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
    tags: breaking-up, cheating, deception, divorce, infidelity, marriage, relationships
    142 likes

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  • #20
    Stephanie Perkins
    “I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
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    Roberto Hogue
    “Real sex is as much about reciprocity as it is exploration and if you need a reason to resent a man later on, just consider the guy who doesn’t believe in cunnilingus...”
    ― Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
    tags: cunnilingus, exploration, funny-sex, great-sex, guys-and-their-dumb-ways, hang-ups, imagination, oral-sex, reciprocity, resentment, sex-quotes, sexy-humor
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    Candace Bushnell
    “Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
    tags: dating, humor, relationships, soulmates
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  • #23
    Charles Bukowski
    “‎"she’ mad but she’
    magic. there’ no lie in her fire.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: charles-bukowski
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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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  • #25
    Dan Pearce
    “It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You’ll probably get kicked in the face.”
    ― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
    tags: dance, dancing, inhibitions, overcoming-fear, peer-pressure, self-doubt
    73 likes



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