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    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: importance, kiss, kissing
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: identity, pretend
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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “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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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “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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    Marilyn Monroe
    “When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: hollywood, kiss, soul
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: ambition, dreams
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: punctuality
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attractiveness, inner-beauty
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
    tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality
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    Sara Gruen
    “With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”
    ― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
    tags: secrets, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    Suzanne Collins
    “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: falling-apart, giving-in
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: atticus-finch, courage
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    ― Jane Austen
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: heartbreak, life
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    Georges Bataille
    “I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
    ― Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
    tags: contradiction, truth
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    Colleen Houck
    “Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make.”
    ― Colleen Houck
    tags: love, love-struck, romance
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    Colleen Houck
    “You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice.”
    ― Colleen Houck
    tags: love, romance
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    Colleen Houck
    “Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing. ”
    ― Colleen Houck
    tags: heartbreak
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    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
    tags: impossible
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