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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: art, craft, fiction, reading, writing
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories
    tags: funny, parkers-back
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
    tags: bleeding, hardship, sacrifice, sweat, work
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: authors, childhood, humor, southern-authors, southern-writers, writing
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I love a lot of people, understand none of them...”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: breakfast-brilliant, insults
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: children, humor, paraphrased, parents
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humorous, naughty, wordplay
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: america, discovery
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: books, obsession
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: life-memories
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Margaret Atwood
    “The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Andy Warhol
    “It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”
    ― Andy Warhol
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    Andy Warhol
    “In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.”
    ― Andy Warhol
    tags: modernity-is-a-sickness
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Edward Gorey
    “My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.”
    ― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
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    William Faulkner
    “How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
    ― William C. Faulkner
    tags: home, nostalgia
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    William Faulkner
    “There is no was.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “My mother is a fish.”
    ― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
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    William Faulkner
    “He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.”
    ― William Faulkner
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