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    D.H. Lawrence
    “Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. ”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis
    tags: demotivational, nihilistic, truth
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, The Informers
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: mixed-metaphor
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Give me lust, baby.
    Flash.
    Give me malice.
    Flash.
    Give me detached existentialist ennui.
    Flash.
    Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
    Flash.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: media
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia
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    Jack Kerouac
    “My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: failure, passion
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    Jack Kerouac
    “But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    “You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Fallen Hearts
    tags: dark-angel
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: gatsby, paradise
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: bad, charming, good, tedious
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We can't stop here, this is bat country!”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: journalist, truth
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    tags: american-dream, fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
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    Oscar Wilde
    “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: america
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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: hollywood, kiss, soul
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