Quotes - Velma (velmalikevelvet) (Eureka, CA) Showing 1-30 of 54

#1

“To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

tags: humanity, imperfection, love

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#2

“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
― Austin Phelps

tags: books, priorities

303 likes

#3

“Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it.”
― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

50 likes

#4

“Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

tags: poker

70 likes

#5

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

130154 likes

#6

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

1760 likes

#7

“The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

tags: profound

47 likes

#8

“One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.”
― Guy de Maupassant , Une vie

tags: illusions

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#9

“So I stood around that big square of books. Standing around books, even books in a foreign language, you feel a kind of electricity buzzing up toward you, Your Excellency. It just happens, the way you get erect around girls wearing tight jeans.
"Except here what happens is that your brain starts to hum.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

62 likes

#10

“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.”
― Thomas Helm

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#11

“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

6313 likes

#12

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

1060 likes

#13

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

tags: love, weirdness

21581 likes

#14

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

7128 likes

#15

“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
― Mae West

tags: complacency, morality, surprise

905 likes

#16

“That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.”
― Laurie R. King

tags: fear, hate, tears

50 likes

#17

“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

811 likes

#18

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

34467 likes

#19

“Looking for who I am is who I am.”
― Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

tags: identity

60 likes

#20

“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”
― Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love

tags: emotion, stoicism

85 likes

#21

“Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.”
― Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf

71 likes

#22

“I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

tags: books, humor, reading

295 likes

#23

“Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.”
― Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

tags: individuality, integrity, style

80 likes

#24

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

630 likes

#25

“If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

tags: art

68 likes

#26

“If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?”
― John Irving, My Movie Business: A Memoir

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#27

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
― Judy Blume

tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy

2117 likes

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