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#1

“We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Extinction

tags: good-advice, inspirational-quote

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“A woman of strength knows to take the time to prepare herself...she goes into seclusion for a season if necessary, to gather the strength of God's power to perform what he requires.”
― Neva Coyle, A Woman of Strength: Reclaim Your Past, Seize Your Present, and Secure Your Future

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“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: compulsive-liar, compulsive-lying, crazy-bitch, ego, egotistical, fantasy, liar, lie, lies, out-of-touch-with-reality, pretending, reality, self-righteous, smile, smiling, superiority-complex, vain, vainity, wannabe, wannabewriter, writer, writing

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#4

“тот что нас не убивает нас не интересует. 'That which cannot kill us does not interest us.' Exhaling poison, he explains, 'Nice sentiment shared by thieves and Bratva.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

tags: dark, humor, life

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#5

“Every dogma has its day.”
― Anthony Burgess

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#6

“Everything is true, and nothing is true!”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

tags: existentialism-meaning-in-life

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#7

“He swallowed, aware that his mind was broadcasting echoes of itself, helpless to stop, hypnotized by the grinding, Cyclopean eye of posterity.”
― Richard Bachman, Roadwork

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#8

“So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

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#9

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: activism, life, philosophical

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#10

“They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

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#11

“His eyes swelling with tears, the alien salt stinging. Not tears of sadness, this he decides. He won't let them be anything more than a body's way of letting go.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

tags: crime-fiction, historical-fiction, sci-fi, thriller-novels

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#12

“Realization hit his face like a bomb. His hand trembled on my cheek, and he looked down to the ground, no longer able to hold my gaze.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires

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#13

“I struggled with anxiety and loneliness, even in a crowded room. I never felt like I was enough. I ate Tums like candy. And I know this sounds all beauty-contestant-answerish, but I just wanted inner peace, a place to come in out of the rain. I needed, well, God, really, but you couldn’t have told me that then, not until the crap hit the fan. You know, those no-one-can- save-you-but-God things? An actual life or death experience. I’m not kidding, I didn’t think I was going to live, but instinctively I cried out and BAM! There God was, not judgmental and mean, but the ultimate friend. He came through in a big way! I’ll be honest with you, I flippin’ drank the Kool-Aid. ”
― Elizabeth Bristol, Mary Me: One Woman’s Incredible Adventure with God

tags: rhyme, self-help, self-love

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“Jeff’s office looks like a cross between the overnight camping trip of a preternaturally rambunctious Boy Scout troop and an X-rated pajama party for a sect of animals for which there is no genus. What it smells like is more easily recognizable – dried-out pizza, stale beer and sweat.”
― Joan Gelfand, Extreme

tags: behind-the-scenes, drama, fiction-novel, insight

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“Who's the young man beside you?" Helen suddenly asked. "Oh, I see, you're one of us." She turned to Nonie. "And you did introduce us before." She tapped a finger against her right temple. "Every once in a while this old clock up here forgets to click to the next second. I apologize for that.”
― Deborah Leblanc, Toe to Toe

tags: comedy, dark-humor, love, paranormal, romance, self-discovery, spooky, supernatural, young-adult, young-adult-fiction

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#16

“We need to better ourselves . . . fight racism. . . How? We talk. We learn. We think. Think before you say something racist. Does it need to be said? Does it help at all?”
― Art Rios, Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional

tags: better-life, better-you

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#17

“Another inventor, J. B. McComber, representing the Chicago-Tower Spiral-Spring Ascension and Toboggan Transportation Company, proposed a tower with a height of 8,947 feet, nearly nine times the height of the Eiffel Tower, with a base one thousand feet in diameter sunk two thousand feet into the earth. Elevated rails would lead from the top of the tower all the way to New York, Boston, Baltimore, and other cities. Visitors ready to conclude their visit to the fair and daring enough to ride elevators to the top would then toboggan all the way back home.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

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#18

“Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: gratitude, life, reflection, world

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#19

“It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

tags: rules

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#20

“wuolo”
― Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family

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#21

“There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians

tags: life

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