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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: alone, differences, emotions, loneliness, people, personality
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    Confucius
    “The funniest people are the saddest ones”
    ― Confucius
    tags: funny, people, sad
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    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: loneliness, people, scared, world
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    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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    John Steinbeck
    “I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    tags: awesome
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    John Steinbeck
    “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: absence, loss
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    John Steinbeck
    “I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter
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    John Steinbeck
    “It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
    tags: life
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    John Steinbeck
    “A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    John Steinbeck
    “Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
    ― John Steinbeck
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    John Steinbeck
    “My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: imagination
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    John Steinbeck
    “A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
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    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? ”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness
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  • #19
    “Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.”
    ― Alex Levine
    tags: alcohol, drinking, food-groups, humor, irish
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    Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    “To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
    ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    tags: apocalypse, ireland, irish
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
    tags: guilty, insincerity, lies, misdemeanor, questions
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    Samuel Beckett
    “The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
    tags: beckett, fuck, irish, off, samuel, writer
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    María Brandán Aráoz
    “If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.”
    ― BRANDAN ARAOZ MARIA
    tags: irish
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    Wayne Kelly
    “The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice.”
    ― "Irish" Wayne Kelly
    tags: boxer, boxing, german, irish, wayne-kelly, wayne-l-kelly
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    Brendan Behan
    “I'm a drinker with writing problems.”
    ― Brendan Behan
    tags: drinking, writing
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    Brendan Behan
    “I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.”
    ― Brendan Behan
    tags: kindness
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    Brendan Behan
    “They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...”
    ― Brendan Behan
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    Brendan Behan
    “I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.”
    ― Brendan Behan
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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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    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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