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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #2
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #9
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #10
    Nick Hornby
    “People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
    Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “No good deed goes unpunished.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #15
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #19
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #20
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • #21
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”
    Chuck Palahniuk

  • #22
    Ayn Rand
    “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
    Ayn Rand

  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    Hemingway, Ernest

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Ayn Rand
    “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
    Ayn Rand

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #27
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We'll never be as young as we are tonight.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

  • #28
    Peter De Vries
    “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

  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #30
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned”
    W. Somerset Maugham



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