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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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  • #3
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: courage, life
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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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  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: life, story
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humour
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    Charles Bukowski
    “That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Women
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  • #10
    Charles Bukowski
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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  • #11
    Charles Bukowski
    “Find what you love and let it kill you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: love
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  • #12
    Charles Bukowski
    “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I often carry things to read
    so that I will not have to look at
    the people.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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  • #15
    Charles Bukowski
    “some moments are nice, some are
    nicer, some are even worth
    writing
    about.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984
    tags: bukowski, love, moments, nice, poetry, war-all-the-time, writing
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  • #16
    Charles Bukowski
    “I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the
    room was like sunlight to me.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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    Charles Bukowski
    “And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Women
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
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  • #19
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “When I was young and filled with folly, I fell in love with melancholy”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: edgar-allan-poe, melancholy
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  • #21
    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Stanley Kubrick
    “A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
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    Stanley Kubrick
    “If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
    tags: cinematography, critical-thinking, discipline, film, film-making, films, impulsive, inspirational, logic, movie, movies, patience, thought, wait, waiting
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  • #24
    Stanley Kubrick
    “I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
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    Stanley Kubrick
    “A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later?"
    Stanley Kubrick”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
    tags: director, films
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    Stanley Kubrick
    “Think [Schindler's List] was about the Holocaust?... That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. ‘'Schindler’s List’' is about 600 who don’t. Anything else?”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
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    Stanley Kubrick
    “I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists, neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
    tags: aesthetic, art, artist, criminal, different, inspirational-quote
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  • #28
    “Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out”
    ― Martin Scorsese
    tags: cinema, film, filmmaking, movies
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  • #29
    “Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.”
    ― Martin Scorsese
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
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