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    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a loneliness in this world so great
    that you can see it in the slow movement of
    the hands of a clock.

    people so tired
    mutilated
    either by love or no love.

    people just are not good to each other
    one on one.

    the rich are not good to the rich
    the poor are not good to the poor.

    we are afraid.

    our educational system tells us
    that we can all be
    big-ass winners.

    it hasn't told us
    about the gutters
    or the suicides.

    or the terror of one person
    aching in one place
    alone

    untouched
    unspoken to

    watering a plant.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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  • #4
    “Destruction is a man's will,
    Nevertheless Prevention is also a man's will,
    Its a man's choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. :)”
    ― Babu Rajan
    tags: destruction, pollution, war
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  • #5
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: bad, liar
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism
    tags: believe, liar, lie, punishment
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  • #7
    Gregg Olsen
    “If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.”
    ― Gregg Olsen, Envy
    tags: liar, writing
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  • #8
    Kim Holden
    “Denial can be beautiful
    But only when you're a fantastic liar”
    ― Kim Holden, All of It
    tags: denial, liar, love, romance
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  • #9
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace
    tags: childhood, fool, happiest-time-of-your-life, liar
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  • #10
    Benjamin Hoff
    “I think, therefore I am... confused.”
    ― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
    tags: am, being, clarity, confused, descartes, i, think
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    Kent M. Keith
    “ The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    ― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
    tags: forgiveness, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world
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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
    12129 likes

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    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
    tags: life, world
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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dangerous, evil, people, world
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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    R.A. Salvatore
    “Sane is boring.”
    ― R. A. Salvatore
    tags: boring, crazy, forgotten-realms, funny, humor, jarlaxle, salvatore, sane, servant-of-the-shard
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  • #17
    Voltaire
    “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everything intelligent is so boring.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: boring, intelligent
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  • #19
    Jarod Kintz
    “I’m not good at talking. Can’t I just nod my way through a conversation? It’s better than nodding off.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
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    Jarod Kintz
    “We talked for four hours. Well, I talked for four, and she listened for two.
”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
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  • #21
    Robert Cormier
    “He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.”
    ― Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War
    tags: boring, life, mediocre
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  • #22
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: boredom, bores, boring
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  • #23
    Jarod Kintz
    “If you catch me talking in my sleep, your conversation bored me.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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  • #24
    Jarod Kintz
    “A miracle every day would cease to be miraculous—it would be mundane. Though even a boring sunset is still glorious.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, Seriously delirious, but not at all serious
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  • #25
    “I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own –”
    ― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
    tags: accept, afraid, alone, anybody, anyone, betray, betrayal, cardew, caring, else, everybody, everyone, fear, freya, goth, gothic, gothic-romance, i, lonely, love, lovely, loving, me, myself, mysterious, mystery, no-one, nobody, own, relationship, relationships, reliable, rely, romance, romantic, scared, support, supportive, suspense, trust, trustworthy, understand, understanding, you, young-adult, yourself
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  • #26
    M.F. Moonzajer
    “Humans are very strange. When you need a hug, they throw you away, when you need condolence , they insult you, and when you need love, they betray you.”
    ― M.F. Moonzajer
    tags: betray, condolence, hug, humans, insult, love, strange
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  • #27
    Holly Black
    “You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.”
    ― Holly Black, Kin
    tags: betray, betrayal, family, guilt, guilty, love, rue
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  • #28
    “Your enemy will always plan to destroy you in any way possible thus take care of your friends, he may use them.”
    ― Oscar Auliq-Ice
    tags: betray, betrayal, betrayals, betrayed, betrayer, betrayers, enemity-quotes, mistrust
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  • #29
    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    ― Alan Watts
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  • #30
    Alan W. Watts
    “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: process, time
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  • #31
    Sigmund Freud
    “He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
    tags: mortal, secret
    657 likes



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