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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
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    Wendelin Van Draanen
    “Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
    ― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
    tags: beauty, ebullience, enthusiasm, individuality, life, people
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    Wendelin Van Draanen
    “My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.”
    ― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
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    Wendelin Van Draanen
    “...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”
    ― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
    tags: honor, inspirational, right-and-wrong
    615 likes

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    Harriet Martineau
    “You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”
    ― Harriet Martineau
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  • #6
    “I’ve found that falling asleep is the best way to politely excuse yourself from an unwanted interaction.”
    ― Babe Walker, White Girl Problems
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  • #7
    “I immediately felt attracted to him, so I ignored him.”
    ― Babe Walker, Psychos: A White Girl Problems Book
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  • #8
    “My dad should have listened to me when I told him that college was not my thing. Instead, he insisted on learning a $200,000 lesson the hard way. That’s the thing about college—you pay a ton of money just to realize that everyone is a fucking moron.”
    ― Babe Walker, White Girl Problems
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    Ashly Lorenzana
    “It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.”
    ― Ashly Lorenzana
    tags: communication, disagreement, expression, expressions, humanity, humble, humility, ideas, judgement, judgmental, open-mind, open-mindedness, opinion, opinions, recognition, respect, talent, thought, thoughts, writing
    758 likes

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    Ronald Reagan
    “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: accomplishment, achievement, inspirational, misattributed, modesty, recognition
    553 likes

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  • #11
    David Baldacci
    “All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.”
    ― David Baldacci, The Christmas Train
    tags: awards, change, civilization, detachment, journalism, mankind, poverty, pulitzer-prize, war, war-reporting
    41 likes

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  • #12
    Kathryn Stockett
    “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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  • #13
    William Shakespeare
    “Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: gifts, unkind
    70 likes

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  • #14
    Erin Gruwell
    “Evil prevails when good people do nothing.”
    ― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
    tags: teaching
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    Erin Gruwell
    “Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.”
    ― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
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    Erin Gruwell
    “It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.”
    ― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
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    Erin Gruwell
    “No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.”
    ― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
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    Erin Gruwell
    “Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.”
    ― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
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    Erin Gruwell
    “I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.”
    ― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
    tags: ethnicity, labels, perspective, pride, race
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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  • #21
    Brooke Shields
    “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”
    ― Brooke Shields
    tags: dumb, redundancy, smoking
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  • #22
    Oscar Levant
    “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
    ― Oscar Levant
    tags: genius, humor, insanity
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  • #23
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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  • #24
    Philip K. Dick
    “Everything in life is just for a while.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
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    Philip K. Dick
    “When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
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    Philip K. Dick
    “There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: dystopia, liberty, spying, surveillance, surveillance-society, technology
    574 likes

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  • #27
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
    tags: behavior, history, psychology, self-deception
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  • #28
    Philip K. Dick
    “No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
    tags: fucked-up, humor, postmodern
    292 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: death, haunting, madness, regret
    129 likes

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  • #30
    Salman Rushdie
    “You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, Shame
    tags: humour, pakistan
    27 likes



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