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    Charles Bukowski
    “If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
    tags: fire, flame, isolation, laughter, loss, sacrifice
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed
    tags: humanity, isolation, lies, loneliness, misunderstanding
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    Criss Jami
    “When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: advantage, alienation, alienation-versus-humanity, art, artist, authenticity, awkward, brain, compromise, craft, creative, fierce, genuine, humanity, humanity-versus-alienation, imagination, introversion, isolation, life, loner, originality, perspective, purity, social, socially-awkward, solitude, writing
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    Charles Bukowski
    “If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
    ― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner
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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: starting, working
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    C.G. Jung
    “You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: action, service
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  • #10
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #13
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    André Gide
    “There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
    ― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: adam-gottbetter, attempt, attempts, great-things, impossible, little-things, nothing-is-impossible, small-things
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  • #23
    André Gide
    “Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”
    ― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
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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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  • #25
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
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  • #26
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    ― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
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    Dylan Thomas
    “When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
    ― Dylan Thomas
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    Dylan Thomas
    “I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake”
    ― Dylan Thomas
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    Dylan Thomas
    “An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.”
    ― Dylan Thomas
    tags: alcoholic, definitions, humor, substance-abuse
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    Dylan Thomas
    “The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.”
    ― Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
    tags: euphemism, love, naughty, poem, sex, shipwreck, thighs
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