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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “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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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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  • #12
    Jodi Picoult
    “When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
    tags: love
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
    ― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
    tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity
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  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: pain
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    John Lennon
    “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, emotions, hypocrisy, pain, suffering
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    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
    ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

    "I give."

    "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: agnosticism, dogs, dyslexia, god, humor, insomnia, pain
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: adventures, comfort, contrast, freedom, meals, pain
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    Tiffanie DeBartolo
    “Did you really want to die?"
    "No one commits suicide because they want to die."
    "Then why do they do it?"
    "Because they want to stop the pain.”
    ― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star
    tags: intent, pain, suicide
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  • #21
    James Frey
    “If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I would sell my sould to make it end. If there was something Higher that controlled out f***ing fates, I would tell it to take my fate and shove it up its fucking ass. Shove it hard and far, you motherf***er. Please end. Please end. Please end.”
    ― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
    tags: anger, devil, fates, god, pain
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  • #22
    Louise Penny
    “When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
    ― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace
    tags: hurt, pain
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  • #23
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
    -Isabel Culpeper”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
    tags: life, linger, pain
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  • #24
    George Orwell
    “Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, agony, agony-of-torture, chronic-pain, pain, torture
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  • #25
    Patricia Briggs
    “Don't make light of any man's pain.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, When Demons Walk
    tags: pain
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  • #26
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
    tags: pain, voice
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  • #27
    Anne Bishop
    “Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.”
    ― Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
    tags: force, pain
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  • #28
    Ian McEwan
    “You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Saturday
    tags: depression, despair, fingernails, manicure, nails
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  • #29
    Anton Chekhov
    “And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: books, despair, immortality, wisdom
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  • #30
    James Hillman
    “To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”
    ― James Hillman, Suicide and the Soul
    tags: despair, hope
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