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  • #1
    Rebecca Wells
    “Smoke, drink and never think.”
    Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

  • #2
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #3
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #4
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #5
    John Steinbeck
    “Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”
    John Steinbeck

  • #6
    Rebecca Wells
    “She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.”
    Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

  • #7
    Rebecca Wells
    “His tall, lanky body had the wrinkles of sleep, and he smelled like cotton and dreams.”
    Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Rebecca Wells
    “Life is short, but it is wide. Genevieve Whitman taught me that.”
    Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    tags: life

  • #10
    Rebecca Wells
    “See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”
    Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere

  • #11
    Anne Rice
    “Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
    Anne Rice

  • #12
    Augusten Burroughs
    “We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

  • #13
    Augusten Burroughs
    “My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

  • #14
    David Sedaris
    “He took a sip of my father’s weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit’s like making love in a canoe."
    "Excuse me?"
    "It’s fucking near water.”
    David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

  • #15
    Johann Georg Hamann
    “The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.”
    Johann Georg Hamann
    tags: deep

  • #16
    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    Stéphane Mallarmé

  • #17
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #18
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #19
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #20
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #21
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #26
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    Paul Terry

  • #27
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #28
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #29
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche



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