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#1

“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

tags: responsibility

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#2

“But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

tags: fear, love, trying

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#3

“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

tags: comfort, life, light, loneliness, pain, sorrow

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#4

“He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend. ”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

tags: confusion, defeat, tiredness

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#5

“There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

tags: problem

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#6

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: america, freedom, human-rights, inspirational, justice, peace, pride, righteousness, stream, water

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#7

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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#8

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#9

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#10

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: hypocrisy

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#11

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#12

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#13

“I never change, except in my affections.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: act-iii

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#14

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: drama, humor, plays

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#15

“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: absurd-but-nicely-phrased, food, foodie

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#16

“I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: humor, life, love, marriage

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#17

“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."

"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."

"I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: algernon, algy, calm, calmness, heartless, heartlessness, muffins, oscar-wilde

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#18

“I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: denial

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#19

“Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden."
"But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!"
"I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing."
"That may be, but the muffins are the same!”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: movie-quote

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#20

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: act-i, ignorance

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#21

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: cleverness, people

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#22

“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: act-iii, age, women

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#23

“You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: act-ii

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#24

“Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: funny-witty-myth-monster-insults

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#25

“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: algernon, humor, literature, reading

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#26

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: act-i

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#27

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#28

“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: fabulousness

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#29

“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#30

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.
ALGERNON: We have.
JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?
ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course.
JACK: What fools.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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