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#1

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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#2

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading

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#3

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

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#4

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Elizabeth Appell

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#5

“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds

tags: creativity, learning, time

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#6

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

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#7

“Gentlemen are gentlemen in bed. They make sure you're having a good time."

"I'll make sure you're having a good time, and that you're okay with everything. I just won't be well mannered about it.”
― Samantha Young, On Dublin Street

tags: dominance, sex

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#9

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#10

“I Fall upon the thorns of life....”
― Percy Bysshe Shelly

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#11

“The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything.”
― Walt Whitman

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#12

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking

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#13

“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

tags: inferno-canto-vi-105

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#14

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Leo Tolstory

tags: inspirational

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#15

“Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone you love.”
― Woody Allen, Standup Comic

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#16

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

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#17

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#18

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

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