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  • #1
    Richard Brautigan
    “Love Poem
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    It's so nice
    to wake up in the morning
    all alone
    and not have to tell somebody
    you love them
    when you don't love them
    any more.”
    Richard Brautigan

  • #2
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #3
    Philip K. Dick
    “If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
    Philip K. Dick

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #6
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #7
    Bertrand Russell
    “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”
    Oscar Wilde
    tags: wit

  • #9
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #10
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #12
    Bret Easton Ellis
    “And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention”
    Bret Easton Ellis

  • #13
    Jerome Charyn
    “Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?”
    Jerome Charyn, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson

  • #14
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz

  • #15
    Richard Yates
    “It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”
    Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

  • #16
    Haruki Murakami
    “With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. ”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #20
    Ian McEwan
    “This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”
    Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach
    tags: life

  • #21
    Ian McEwan
    “When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
    Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #25
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #26
    Katherine Mansfield
    “The English language is damned difficult, but it's also damned rich, and so clear and bright that you can search out the darkest places with it.”
    Katherine Mansfield, Letters and Journals

  • #27
    Rachel Kadish
    “Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.”
    Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied: A Sharp Literary Romance – Finding Love That Fulfills Head and Heart
    tags: books

  • #28
    Oliver Sacks
    “If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
    Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

  • #29
    Rachel Kadish
    “Love isn't rest. Love requires you, from time to time, to rip up your soul and replant it. To dare your lover to do the same. To muster sympathy where it seemed impossible. To be, perpetually, two kids joining hands, drawing breath, and deep diving.”
    Rachel Kadish

  • #30
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss



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