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    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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    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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  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #4
    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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  • #5
    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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  • #7
    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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  • #8
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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  • #9
    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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  • #10
    Marilyn Monroe
    “try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
    tags: enjoy, life, marilyn-monroe, miserable
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  • #11
    Clive James
    “She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”
    ― Clive James
    tags: marilyn-monroe
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  • #12
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
    tags: confidence, fragments, intimate-notes, letters, marilyn-monroe, poems
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  • #13
    “The world is entirely magical, the only illusion is that it isn't...”
    ― Lydia Andal, Marilyn Monroe, Under the Veil; Autism, Numerology & Norma Jeane
    tags: magical-realism, magical-thinking, marilyn-monroe
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  • #14
    V.C. Andrews
    “What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina
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  • #15
    V.C. Andrews
    “Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns
    tags: if-there-be-thorns
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  • #16
    V.C. Andrews
    “Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon”
    ― VC Andrews
    tags: lies
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  • #17
    V.C. Andrews
    “Children are very wise
    intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
    tags: children, intuition, intuitive, kids, love, pretending, youth
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  • #18
    V.C. Andrews
    “At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
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  • #19
    V.C. Andrews
    “People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And then once more they went back to the world, in the same way they had arrived the first time around.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
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  • #20
    V.C. Andrews
    “Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.”
    ― V.C. Andrews
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  • #21
    V.C. Andrews
    “It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
    tags: chris-cathy-otp
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  • #22
    V.C. Andrews
    “What's done
    is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're
    wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything
    ahead, waiting for us."
    Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to
    forget thoughts of revenge.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
    tags: ahead, alive, complete, done, everything, fin, finished, free, future, goodbyes, real, revenge, thoughts, time, waiting, wasted, wasting-time
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  • #23
    V.C. Andrews
    “Seek the tarnish and you shall find”
    ― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns
    tags: if-there-be-thorns
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  • #24
    V.C. Andrews
    “People have a way of believing nothing terrible will ever happen to them, only to others.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
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  • #25
    V.C. Andrews
    “Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind
    tags: beauty, talent
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  • #26
    V.C. Andrews
    “Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone.
    Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would
    always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
    tags: change, changed, doll, fair, fragile, fragility, gone, made, obstacles, porcelain, she, someone, steel, turned-into, used-to-be, wants
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  • #27
    V.C. Andrews
    “The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.”
    ― V.C. Andrews
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  • #28
    V.C. Andrews
    “...for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews”
    ― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns
    tags: inspirational
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  • #29
    V.C. Andrews
    “How wonderful to be understood, and never have to explain.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind
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  • #30
    V.C. Andrews
    “Love doesn’t always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
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