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“In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you”
― Lindy West

“Sincerity is an easy target, but I don’t want to excise sincerity from my life – that’s a lonely way to live.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Je ne give a damn pas about le français, Les filles en France ne wear pas les pantelons”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Words, words, words.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Denmark's a prison.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I love you just the way you are
but you don't see you like I do.
You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect.
Trust me, perfect should try to be you.”
― Bo Burnham, Egghead; or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone

“Bitches and hoes don't exist because the hoes know Bo's a feminist.”
― Bo Burnham

“I'm a compulsive everything.”
― Mike Birbiglia, Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

“Envy is ignorance,
Imitation is Suicide.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green