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#1

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett

#2

“If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman

tags: positions, sex

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#3

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

tags: intensity, poetry, zeal

1140 likes

#4

“How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: jane-austen

1360 likes

#5

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

2027 likes

#6

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
― George Carlin

tags: benediction, evil, goodwill, humor, inspirational, wishes

3520 likes

#7

“Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

1070 likes

#8

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

1038 likes

#9

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

1880 likes

#10

“Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

1137 likes

#11

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81812 likes

#12

“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”
― Christian Bauman

tags: learn, read, reading

1874 likes

#13

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
― Erich Segal

tags: love

1670 likes

#14

“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
― H. Rider Haggard, She

tags: after-death, death, forget, forgetting, immortality, life, live-forever, mortality, sleep

960 likes

#15

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey

tags: humor

908 likes

#16

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
― Pearl S. Buck

1459 likes

#17

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

1046 likes

#18

“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
― James M. Cain

tags: james-m-cain, writing-craft

1470 likes

#19

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
― Jean Kerr

tags: beauty

994 likes

#20

“Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.”
― Delia Ephron, Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.

tags: truth

992 likes

#21

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
― Abraham Sutzkever

tags: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard

1157 likes

#22

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
― Reinaldo Arenas

435 likes

#23

“Everybody counts, or nobody counts.”
― Michael Connelly

995 likes

#24

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
― Thea Dorn

tags: reading

1482 likes

#25

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

16216 likes

#26

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18880 likes

#27

“Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.”
― Robert James Waller

736 likes

#28

“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

37982 likes

#29

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

4326 likes

#30

“And send not to ask for whom the fucking bell tolls, because you're not going to like the answer.”
― Mike Carey, Vicious Circle

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