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    E.B. White
    “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E. B. White
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: truth
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    John Steinbeck
    “As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: heaviness-of-time, silence
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    Chuck Klosterman
    “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
    tags: art, love, profound
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    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    ― Maurice Sendak
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally
    tags: brains, marriage
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    tags: bad-mood, disgruntlement, humor
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: humbert-humbert, love
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    Stendhal
    “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
    ― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal
    tags: community
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  • #11
    Kurt Cobain
    “I don't care what you think unless it is about me.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: isolation, narcissism, opinion
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    Gena Showalter
    “I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.”
    ― Gena Showalter, The Darkest Seduction
    tags: lords-of-the-underworld, narcissism
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    Gena Showalter
    “Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?”
    ― Gena Showalter, The Darkest Seduction
    tags: narcissism
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    Riina Rinkineva aka. Sebastyne Young
    “From where I’m sitting,
    I AM the centre of the Universe!”
    ― Sebastyne Young
    tags: humor, narcissism, self-centered
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    Brené Brown
    “When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.”
    ― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
    tags: fear, narcissism, self-worth, shame
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: drinking
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    Erma Bombeck
    “The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.”
    ― Erma Bombeck
    tags: food, shopping
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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Alas! Where is human nature so weak as in the book-store?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecher
    tags: books, reading, shopping
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    Amy Tan
    “Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
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    Bruce Lee
    “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, prayer
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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  • #23
    Kim Harrison
    “Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.”
    ― Kim Harrison, Pale Demon
    tags: growing-up
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    Coco Chanel
    “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
    ― Coco Chanel
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    E.L. James
    “Laters, baby.”
    ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
    tags: christina-grey, e-l-james, fifty-shades-of-grey
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    E.L. James
    “I want you sore, baby,” he murmurs, and he continues his sweet, leisurely torment, backward, forward. “Every time you move tomorrow, I want you to be reminded that I’ve been here. Only me. You are mine.”
    ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
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    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty
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    Milan Kundera
    “Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: love, monogamy, polygamy, sleep
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