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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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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Richard Kadrey
    “Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”
    ― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead
    tags: bullets, memories, metaphor, pain
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: change, changes, courage, encouragement, exploration, growing, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life-and-living, self-discovery
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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
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    E.R. Braithwaite
    “So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?”
    ― E.R. Braithwaite, To Sir, With Love
    tags: education, learning, teaching
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    “If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don't. It's not that complicated. Love, in most cases, betrays the one feeling it. Don't waste moments waiting and wondering. Don't throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn't want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up.”
    ― Donna Lynn Hope
    tags: breaking-up, heartbroken, obsession, rejected
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    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    ― Hal Borland
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    Mona van Duyn
    “The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
    ― Mona Van Duyn
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    Armistead Maupin
    “Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
    ― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City
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    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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    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
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    J.G. Ballard
    “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
    ― J.G. Ballard
    tags: imagination, immortality
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    David Guterson
    “Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
    ― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
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    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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    Eleesha
    “On this day of love, embrace the freedom, to not just give love - but to receive it, too.”
    ― Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Love: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to attract true love into your life
    tags: affirmations, channeling, empowerment, inspirational-quotes, motivational-quotes, quotes, soul
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    Arundhati Roy
    “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
    tags: words
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    Marian Keyes
    “It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.

    And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.”
    ― Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
    tags: death, humor, life, suicide, work
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    Louis L'Amour
    “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
    tags: books, inspirational, reading
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    Marie Lu
    “Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
    ― Marie Lu, Legend
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    Nicole Krauss
    “When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: power-of-words
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  • #27
    “We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
    ― John Powell SJ
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    William Wordsworth
    “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
    ― William Wordsworth
    tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
    6700 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
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