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    Edith Wharton
    “I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.”
    ― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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    Dawn Powell
    “Modesty's no credit to anyone-it's just a social grace.”
    ― Dawn Powell, Come Back to Sorrento
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    Dawn Powell
    “The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.”
    ― Dawn Powell
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    Dodie Smith
    “Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?”
    ― Dodie Smith, The Town in Bloom
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    E.B. White
    “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
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    Dawn Powell
    “All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.”
    ― Dawn Powell
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    Edith Wharton
    “Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”
    ― Edith Wharton
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    Edith Wharton
    “Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
    ― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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    Dawn Powell
    “There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.”
    ― Dawn Powell
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    Thomas Hardy
    “It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
    tags: women
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    Edith Wharton
    “There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”
    ― Edith Wharton
    tags: friendship, love, meaning, soul, soul-mate
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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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    Dodie Smith
    “I really am just as discontented, but I don’t seem to notice it so much.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: discontentment
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    Edith Wharton
    “She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”
    ― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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    “Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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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    Edith Wharton
    “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
    ― Edith Wharton
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    “It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it...You have to let people see what you wrote.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: writing-advice
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    ― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
    tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Dorothy Parker
    “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: god, humor, money
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    Dawn Powell
    “There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.”
    ― Dawn Powell
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
    43892 likes



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