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#1

“I protest against any absolute conclusion.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: absolute-conclusion

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#2

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly

3584 likes

#3

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

tags: dark-humor, humor, suicide

2233 likes

#4

“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: dorothy-parker, heterosexuality, homosexuality, humor, wit

1629 likes

#5

“Time doth flit; oh shit.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#6

“You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

tags: hell

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#7

“All right, God, send me to hell. You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.”
― Dorothy Parker, A Telephone Call

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#8

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay

1427 likes

#9

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

1974 likes

#10

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit

1616 likes

#11

“The universe doesn't allow perfection.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

421 likes

#12

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

2159 likes

#13

“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”
― Stephen Hawking

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#14

“So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: einstein, quantum-physics, refutation

159 likes

#15

“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: god, life, science, stephen-hawking

133 likes

#16

“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”
― Stephen Hawking

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#17

“Only time(whatever that may be) will tell.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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#18

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: inspirational, story-teller, storytelling, your-gift

2502 likes

#19

“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

1478 likes

#20

“We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

1244 likes

#21

“I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

531 likes

#22

“The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

356 likes

#23

“I think looking forward will be better than looking back.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

336 likes

#24

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: answers, love, true, universe

3332 likes

#25

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

3064 likes

#26

“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

2344 likes

#27

“You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

1050 likes

#28