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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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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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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. ”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
    tags: charles-bukowski, injustice
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    Charles Bukowski
    “It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
    tags: reading
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    Charles Bukowski
    “You are thirty minutes late."
    "Yes."
    "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?"
    "No."
    "Why not, pray tell?"
    "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
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    Charles Bukowski
    “People don't do me much good.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7769 likes

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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
    tags: life-story
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
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    William Golding
    “We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: empowerment, equality, gender, men, superiority, women
    762 likes



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