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#1

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#2

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#4

“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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#5

“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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#6

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe

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#7

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#8

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

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#9

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

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#10

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: poetry

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#11

“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

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#12

“I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

tags: lies, poetry, promises

668 likes

#13

“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
― Anne Sexton

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#14

“Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.”
― Anne Sexton

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#15

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: death, life, poison

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#16

“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

tags: books, friends, poetry

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#17

“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: exuberance, moderation, poem, poetry, poets, saints

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#18

“Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself,
Counting this row and that row of moccasins
Waiting on the silent shelf.”
― Anne Sexton

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#19

“O starry night, This is how I want to die”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

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#20

“Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.”
― Anne Sexton

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#21

“Yet love enters my blood like an I.V.,
dripping in its little white moments.”
― Anne Sexton

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#22

“The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.”
― Anne Sexton

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#23

“Take your foot out of the graveyard,
they are busy being dead.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

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#24

“But I can't. Need is not quite belief.”
― Anne Sexton

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#25

“the man
inside of woman
ties a knot
so that they will
never again be separate…”
― Anne Sexton

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#26

“Suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.”
― Anne Sexton

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#27

“Even without wars, life is dangerous.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: life

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#28

“Fee-fi-fo-fum -
Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: poetry, the-addict

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#29

“I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

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#30

“Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

tags: love-loss

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#31

“Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.”
― Anne Sexton

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