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    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge
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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
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    Jean de la Fontaine
    “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
    ― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables
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    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    ― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
    tags: morning, waking-up
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
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    Jean de La Bruyère
    “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
    ― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères
    tags: time
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    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: protection, silence, speech
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    George Burns
    “If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
    ― George Burns
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    Peter De Vries
    “Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”
    ― Peter De Vries
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    China Miéville
    “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
    ― China Miéville, King Rat
    tags: challenge, trap
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
    tags: books, reading
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    Howard Nemerov
    “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
    ― Howard Nemerov
    tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing
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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton
    2771 likes

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    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
    3878 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
    tags: life, world
    2695 likes

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    Gertrude Stein
    “We are always the same age inside. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: self-confidence
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    Donald E. Westlake
    “Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
    ― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much
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    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    ― Annie Proulx
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