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    Steve Maraboli
    “You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: action, flowers, frustration, life, seeds, success
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    William Goldman
    “Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: life
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    William Goldman
    “Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: adoration, ardor, love
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    J. Michael Straczynski
    “There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
    ― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2
    tags: self-awareness, suicide, vanity
    1900 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “By the time you swear you're his,
    Shivering and sighing.
    And he vows his passion is,
    Infinite, undying.
    Lady make note of this --
    One of you is lying.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: courtship, cynicism, love, lying, passion
    1954 likes

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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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    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    ― Sid Ziff
    tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit
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    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “If I didn't care for fun and such,
    I'd probably amount to much.
    But I shall stay the way I am,
    Because I do not give a damn.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
    tags: apathy, fame, pleasure
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    Dorothy Parker
    “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
    tags: horticulture, puns
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    “I've lived a life of unfinished things.”
    ― Dorothy Kunhardt
    tags: life, sad, sad-but-true
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    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
    tags: angels, demons
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns
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    Dorothy Parker
    “That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns
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    Judy Blume
    “My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: inspirational, life
    2124 likes

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    Walt Whitman
    “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, positive-attitude
    2709 likes

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    Isabel Allende
    “Write what should not be forgotten.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: forgotten, on-writing, writing, writing-advice
    1582 likes

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    Isabel Allende
    “Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.”
    ― Isabel Allende
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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.”
    ― Charles Spurgeon
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    Sarah Ockler
    “Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”
    ― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
    tags: crying, death, lost, love, tragedy, weeping
    988 likes

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    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: labels, names
    2845 likes

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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
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    Nora Roberts
    “You put something behind you, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going.”
    ― Nora Roberts, The Obsession
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    Thornton Wilder
    “Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
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    Thornton Wilder
    “The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
    ― Thornton Wilder
    tags: epitaph, gratitude
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    Thornton Wilder
    “EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?"

    STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.”
    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
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    Thornton Wilder
    “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
    ― Thornton Wilder
    tags: life, living
    396 likes

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    Thornton Wilder
    “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?”
    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
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  • #30
    Sappho
    “You may forget but
    let me tell you
    this: someone in
    some future time
    will think of us”
    ― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women
    521 likes



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