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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: god, humor, life

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“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

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#3

“What you risk reveals what you value.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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#4

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: breath, existence

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“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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#6

“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
― Lily Tomlin

tags: humor, life, rat-race

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#7

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

tags: humor, life, sex

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#8

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain

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#9

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

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#10

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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#11

“Time doth flit; oh shit.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#12

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

tags: books, reading

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#13

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#14

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life

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#15

“I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.”
― Jules Renard

tags: god

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#16

“When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.”
― Sara Nelson

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#17

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

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#18

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: qotd

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#19

“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#20

“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#21

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#22

“A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.”
― Dean Young, Skid

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#23

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#24

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#25

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

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“I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. ”
― Stephen King

tags: writing-terror

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#27

“In the increasingly convincing darkness
The words become palpable, like a fruit
That is too beautiful to eat. ”
― John Ashbery

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“Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

tags: death, friendship, time

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#29

“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”
― Wallace Stevens

tags: poetry

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#30

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

tags: sympathy

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