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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Find what you love and let it kill you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: love
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.
    Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
    Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
    Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: harry-potter, humor, james-potter, remus-lupin, sirius-black, snape, wormtail
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: books, literature, on-fiction
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    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
    3815 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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    Mo Yan
    “People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
    ― Mo Yan
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea
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    Jarod Kintz
    “She looked like the kind of woman I could fall in love with. Trouble is, she was standing next to the kind of woman I’d like to make love to. 
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    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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    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
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: affection, amity, love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: pleasure
    466 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Albert Camus
    “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
    tags: betrayal, loyalty, relationships
    1850 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A kiss may ruin a human life”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: kiss, life, love
    282 likes

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    April Genevieve Tucholke
    “Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.”
    ― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
    tags: devil, faustian-legend, soul
    162 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: inspiration, life-lessons
    273 likes

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  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    “When love is not madness it is not love.”
    ― Pedro Calderon de la Barca
    tags: love, romance
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
    18882 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: fate, history
    1852 likes

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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
    4268 likes



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