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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: beat, democracy, gay, poet, poetry, politics
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    Frank McCourt
    “He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Harvey Fierstein
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
    ― Harvey Fierstein
    tags: be-yourself, identity, individuality, inspirational, life, self-determination, self-esteem, self-expression
    2940 likes

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  • #8
    Judy Garland
    “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
    ― Judy Garland
    tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality
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    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination
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  • #10
    Pablo Picasso
    “Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Omar Khayyám
    “Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
    ― Omar Khayyam, رباعيات خيام
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: censorship, education, free-speech, paraphrased
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    Dorothy Parker
    “If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: dorothy-parker, heterosexuality, homosexuality, humor, wit
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Three be the things I shall never attain:
    Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
    tags: humor
    216 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

    [Women Know Everything!]”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews, fancy, raisins, terrible, wordplay
    744 likes

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    Nina Guilbeau
    “When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the “10 second heartbreak.” That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember…”
    ― Nina Guilbeau
    tags: heartache, heartbreak, heartbroken, loss, mourning
    466 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the
    room was like sunlight to me.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
    tags: arts, life, music, poetry
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  • #21
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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  • #22
    Truman Capote
    “Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: writing
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  • #23
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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  • #24
    Golda Meir
    “Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
    ― Golda Meir
    tags: funny, golda, meir, true
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  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Langston Hughes
    “I stay cool, and dig all jive,
    That's the way I stay alive.
    My motto,
    as I live and learn,
    is
    Dig and be dug
    In return.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: inspiration
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    Charles Dickens
    “They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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  • #29
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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  • #30
    “That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.”
    ― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
    tags: bethany-church, feelings, human
    473 likes



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