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    Charles Olson
    “this
    is the abstract, this
    is the cold doing, this
    is the almost impossible”
    ― Charles Olson
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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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  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
    15759 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “Being crazy isn't enough.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, originality
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: love
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    Jonathan Ames
    “People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.”
    ― Jonathan Ames
    tags: confusion, literature, reading
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: friendship, insincerity, manners
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
    tags: happiness
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: truth
    1555 likes

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    J.D. Salinger
    “An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: art
    899 likes

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    Aimee Bender
    “I want to be violated by insight.”
    ― Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
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    Bette Davis
    “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
    ― Bette Davis
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women
    6176 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    Gloria E. Anzaldúa
    “Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself.”
    ― Gloria Anzaldua
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  • #25
    Gloria E. Anzaldúa
    “Do work that matters. Vale la pena”
    ― Gloria E. Anzaldúa
    56 likes



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