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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

  • #7
    Scott Lynch
    “Someday, Locke Lamora,” he said, “someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I’m still around to see it.”
    “Oh please,” said Locke. “It’ll never happen.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #8
    Tom Waits
    “A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.”
    Tom Waits

  • #9
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

  • #10
    Anna Godbersen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”
    Anna Godbersen, Envy

  • #11
    Eloisa James
    “If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.”
    Eloisa James, A Kiss at Midnight

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Handsome is as handsome does”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #15
    Kahlil Gibran
    “The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.”
    Khalil Gibran

  • #16
    “It's the height of bad manners to sleep with somebody less than three times.”
    Mark Boxer

  • #17
    Victor Pelevin
    “Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself.”
    Victor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

  • #18
    Victor Pelevin
    “Фсе зделано изтово кто смотрет. Потому что издругово это сделать нельзя. Без таво кто смотрет не будет ни шляпки ни вуали ни ландышый. Ничево. Понятно? Тисей смотрит в зеркало а Минатавр это то что он видет патамучто на нем шлем ужаса.”
    Victor Pelevin, The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur

  • #19
    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Judy Sheindlin
    “Beauty fades, dumb is forever.”
    Judge Judy Sheindlin, Beauty Fades, Dumb is Forever

  • #22
    “You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #23
    “Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #24
    Malcolm X
    “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
    Malcolm X

  • #25
    Adyashanti
    “Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?”
    Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing

  • #26
    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

  • #27
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
    Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

  • #28
    Pablo
    “Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!”
    Pablo

  • #29
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”
    Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

  • #30
    Joel Osteen
    “What you keep before your eyes will affect you.”
    Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential



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