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#1

“Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

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#2

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

9532 likes

#3

“Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: fairytales

4600 likes

#4

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: loss

9424 likes

#5

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

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#6

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

6027 likes

#7

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

26440 likes

#9

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

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#9

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love

9448 likes

#10

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: expectation, hope, life

5636 likes

#11

“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: alaska-young

2498 likes

#12

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner

tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability

9977 likes

#13

“Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again.
"So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: death, humor, sarcasm

9392 likes

#15

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: grief, inspirational

2853 likes

#15

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

11127 likes

#16

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19423 likes

#18

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

6799 likes

#18

“I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: ogling, staring, trouble, women

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#19

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

18681 likes

#20

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

10990 likes

#21

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

5104 likes

#22

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

5140 likes

#23

“Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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#24

“He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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#25

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27730 likes

#26

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry

11829 likes

#27

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

tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly

3582 likes

#28

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, books, re-reading, reading

6183 likes

#29

“Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#30

“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
― Stephen King

1150 likes

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