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“Never trust a man who can dance.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.”
― Nick Cave, The Death of Bunny Munro

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
― Douglas McGrath

“This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride — he's my dad — and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.”
― Nick Cave

“Life is hell, but there are prizes. ”
― Janet Frame

“Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.”
― Janet Frame, Faces in the Water

“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“My true intent is all for your delight.”
― Nick Cave, The Death of Bunny Munro

“Oh, fuck the paperwork”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“Men aren't really complicated, Ana, honey. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said - when really it's obvious. If I were you, I'd take him literally. That might help.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“Raising the ordinary to extraordinary”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
― George Gordon Byron

“With fame, money and sex settled, he had to find something else to fight, and like any honorable man he chose to fight his own people. And that was how Byron the sentimental poet of graveyards and lost loves became the Satanic joker all England loved to hate.”
― John Dolan

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Francis Bacon

“A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.”
― George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals

“Friendship is love without wings.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
― Lord Byron

“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”
― Lord George Gordon Byron

“This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.”
― Lord Byron

“Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.”
― George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

“This is the age of oddities let loose.”
― George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.”
― George Gordon Byron

“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind
about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
― John Keats

“The excellence of every Art is its intensity.”
― John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters

“And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.”
― Mary Wollstoncraft

“I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals.”
― Émile Zola, The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories