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  • #1
    Richard Siken
    “Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
    Richard Siken

  • #2
    “Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.”
    Donna Barr

  • #3
    Anaïs Nin
    “I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #4
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #5
    Anaïs Nin
    “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    Anais Nin

  • #6
    Anaïs Nin
    “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
    Anais Nin

  • #7
    Anaïs Nin
    “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
    Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

  • #8
    Patti Smith
    “I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.”
    Patti Smith, Just Kids

  • #9
    Patti Smith
    “Everything comes down so pasteurized
    everything comes down 16 degrees
    they say your amplifier is too loud
    turn your amplifier down
    are we high all alone on our knees
    memory is just hips that swing
    like a clock
    the past projects fantastic scenes
    tic/toc tic/toc tic/toc
    fuck the clock!”
    Patti Smith, Babel

  • #10
    Patti Smith
    “Well I haven't fucked much with the past,
    But I've fucked plenty with the future.

    - Babelogue
    Patti Smith, Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future

  • #11
    John   Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    John Waters

  • #12
    David Levithan
    “Fuck this.
    Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people can become one ideal. Fuck this helplessness. Fuck this waiting for something to happen that probably won't ever happen.”
    David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

  • #13
    Lenny Bruce
    “If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”
    Lenny Bruce

  • #14
    Joan Crawford
    “Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.”
    Joan Crawford

  • #15
    Kaui Hart Hemmings
    “Fuck', I think. What a beautiful word. If I could say only one thing for the rest of my life, that would be it.”
    Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants

  • #16
    Johnny Carson
    “Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.”
    Johnny Carson

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #24
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #25
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #26
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #27
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche



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