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  • #1
    George Washington
    “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
    George Washington

  • #2
    Jess C. Scott
    “I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
    Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely

  • #3
    Nelson Mandela
    “Tread softly,
    Brathe peacefully,
    Laugh hysterically.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #4
    Jennifer L. Armentrout
    “Am I glowing?"
    "Like a Christmas tree."
    "Not just the star?"
    The bed moved a little, and I felt his hand brush my arm. "No. You're super bright. It's kind of like looking at the sun.”
    Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

  • #5
    Michelle Hodkin
    “You don't have to pick me up," I said in a rush.
    "Considering you have no idea where we're going and I have no intention of telling you, I'm quite sure that I do."
    "I can meet you somewhere centrally located."
    Noah sounded amused. "I promise to press my trousers before meeting your family. I'll even bring flowers for the occasion."
    "Oh, God. Please don't." I said. Maybe honesty is the best policy. "My family is going to screw with my life if you come over." I knew them far too well.
    "Congratulations-- you just made the prospect all the more enticing. What is your address?”
    Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

  • #6
    Sarah Dessen
    “You want to take me to a movie?" I asked.
    "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.”
    Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #8
    Francis Bacon
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    Francis Bacon

  • #9
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #10
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #11
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #12
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."

    [Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

  • #13
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Every moment of the night
    Forever changing places
    And they put out the star-light
    With the breath from their pale faces”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #14
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #15
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”
    Edgar Allen Poe, Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

  • #16
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Stories and Poems

  • #18
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of Edgar Allen Poe Volume 4

  • #19
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #20
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    Charles Bukowski, Barfly

  • #21
    Charles Bukowski
    “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #22
    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #23
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #24
    Charles Bukowski
    “I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #25
    Charles Bukowski
    “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #26
    Charles Bukowski
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    Charles Bukowski, Factotum

  • #27
    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

  • #28
    Charles Bukowski
    “That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
    Charles Bukowski, Women

  • #29
    Charles Bukowski
    “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #30
    Charles Bukowski
    “there are worse things
    than being alone
    but it often takes
    decades to realize this
    and most often when you do
    it's too late
    and there's nothing worse
    than too late”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #31
    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a loneliness in this world so great
    that you can see it in the slow movement of
    the hands of a clock.

    people so tired
    mutilated
    either by love or no love.

    people just are not good to each other
    one on one.

    the rich are not good to the rich
    the poor are not good to the poor.

    we are afraid.

    our educational system tells us
    that we can all be
    big-ass winners.

    it hasn't told us
    about the gutters
    or the suicides.

    or the terror of one person
    aching in one place
    alone

    untouched
    unspoken to

    watering a plant.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell



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