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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #5
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

  • #5
    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #6
    Brigitte Bardot
    “A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”
    Brigitte Bardot

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
    Albert Camus, Summer in Algiers

  • #8
    “Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.”
    Philip Seymour Hoffman

  • #9
    Truman Capote
    “A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.”
    Truman Capote

  • #10
    “Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.”
    Philip Seymour Hoffman

  • #11
    Noël Coward
    “Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?”
    Noel Coward
    tags: tea

  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

  • #13
    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

  • #14
    Dale Carnegie
    “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ”
    Dale Carnegie

  • #15
    Truman Capote
    “If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.”
    Truman Capote

  • #16
    “Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.”
    Michael J. Fox

  • #17
    Sophia Loren
    “Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
    Sophia Loren

  • #18
    “His intuition was luminous from the instant you met him. So was his intelligence. A lot of actors act intelligent, but Philip was the real thing: a shining, artistic polymath with an intelligence that came at you like a pair of headlights and enveloped you from the moment he grabbed your hand, put a huge arm round your neck and shoved a cheek against yours; or if the mood took him, hugged you to him like a big, pudgy schoolboy, then stood and beamed at you while he took stock of the effect. (About Philip Seymour Hoffman)”
    John le Carré

  • #19
    Truman Capote
    “A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”
    Truman Capote

  • #20
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #21
    Yukichi Fukuzawa
    “In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.”
    Yukichi Fukuzawa

  • #22
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want”
    Fitzgerald F. Scott

  • #23
    “What feminists refer to as microaggressions, the rest of us sane adults call life....The concept of microaggressions encourages women to think that every single thing in the world is, or should be, about them. It encourages breathless levels of narcissism, solipsism and just plain delusion....Feminism encourages women to believe that they have the same reasoning and coping abilities as toddlers. No thanks.”
    Janet Bloomfield

  • #24
    Murasaki Shikibu
    “No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”
    Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

  • #25
    Milton Friedman
    “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
    Milton Friedman

  • #26
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #27
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

  • #28
    Walt Disney Company
    “Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”
    Walt Disney

  • #29
    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #30
    Norman Vincent Peale
    “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ”
    Norman Vincent Peale



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