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    “I have to return some videotapes”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
    tags: american, bale, bret, christian, easton, ellis, funny, humor, psycho, return, videotapes
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    “All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
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    “The better you look, the more you see.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama
    tags: beauty, privilege
    248 likes

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  • #4
    “No one ever likes the right person.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
    tags: likes
    198 likes

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  • #5
    “Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
    tags: behavior, evil, personality
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  • #6
    “Disappear here”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
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  • #7
    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: books, infinite-jest
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: freedom, truth
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  • #10
    David Foster Wallace
    “You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

    "I give."

    "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: agnosticism, dogs, dyslexia, god, humor, insomnia, pain
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  • #12
    David Foster Wallace
    “Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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  • #13
    David Foster Wallace
    “Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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  • #14
    David Foster Wallace
    “We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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  • #16
    David Foster Wallace
    “Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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  • #17
    David Foster Wallace
    “I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity”
    ― David Foster Wallace
    tags: precocious
    535 likes

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    David Foster Wallace
    “It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: loneliness, longing
    1111 likes

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    David Foster Wallace
    “You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking. ”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #21
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
    11274 likes

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  • #22
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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  • #23
    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
    8489 likes

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  • #24
    Lance Armstrong
    “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
    ― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts
    tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
    10036 likes

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    Sharon Salzberg
    “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
    ― Sharon Salzberg
    tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom
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  • #27
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, god, religion
    11272 likes



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