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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: inspirational, women

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“I wasn't planning on dumping Cameron. We were here, and he called, and his face showed up on my phone- well, actually a llama came up on my phone because I don't actually have a picture of him so I just used a llama- and the llama made me so angry I just couldn't help myself."
"Bad time to be a llama."
"Is there ever a good time, really?”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

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#3

“Fear motivates, more than love or ambition or joy. Fear is more powerful than anything else in the world.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

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#4

“Do you drink?"
"Of course,I just said I was a writer.”
― Stephen King

tags: drinking, stereotypes, writer

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#5

“Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.”
― Stephen King, The Body

tags: inspirational, stand-by-me, stephen-king

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#6

“Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"

He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

tags: time-travel

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#7

“The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

tags: life-quotes

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#8

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

tags: authors, books, dark, horror, inspirational, inspiring-quotes, minds, quotes, reading, steven-king, writers

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#9

“Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.
It falls upon her.
Love is like dying.”
― Stephen King

tags: cycle-of-the-werewolf, horror, love, lovers

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#10

“Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!”
― Stephen King, It

tags: clown, death, horror, it, kill, king, monster, murder, pennywise, stephen

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#11

“I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was."
"Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly.
"It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: evil, horror

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#12

“Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.”
― Stephen King

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#13

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#14

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#15

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#16

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#17

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#18

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#19

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#21

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#22

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#23

“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

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#24

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#25

“They'll float," it growled, "they float, Georgie, and when you're down here with me, you'll float, too-”
― Stephen King, It

tags: float, georgie, it

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#26

“I don’t like people. They fuck me up”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

tags: quotes, stephen-king, the-dark-tower

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#27

“Any big hotels have got scandals," he said. "Just like every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go. Sometimes one of em will pop off in his room, heart attack or stroke or something like that. Hotels are superstitious places. No thirteenth floor or room thirteen, no mirrors on the back of the door you come in through, stuff like that. [...]”
― Stephen King, The Shining

tags: ghosts, history, hotels, overlook-hotel

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#28

“Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

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#29

“OH SHIT! I BELIEVE IN ALL OF THOSE THINGS!" he shouted, and it was true: even at eleven he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.”
― Stephen King, It

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#30

“Are you still forgetting things?" "I don't know, I can't remember," I said.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

tags: forgetfulness

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#31

“Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: beauty, ben-hanscom, fire, haiku, hair, it, love, love-quotes, stephen-king

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