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#1

“I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.

--from "Cut", written 24 October 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

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#2

“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

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#3

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#4

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

tags: goals

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#5

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: future

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#6

“More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia

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#7

“It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff

tags: life

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#8

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: hate, self-loathing

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#9

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
― Chuck Palahniuk , Invisible Monsters

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#10

“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: history

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#11

“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: weather

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#12

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance

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#13

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

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#14

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: discovery, eccentric, life

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#15

“Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"

"I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: humor, manners, pooh, tigger

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#16

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

tags: reading, writing

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#17

“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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#18

“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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#19

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading

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#20

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

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#21

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

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#22

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

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#23

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

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#24

“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#25

“When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

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#26

“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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#27

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#28

“I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#29

“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

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#30

“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: death, murder

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