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    Charles Bukowski
    “invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
    don't swim in the same slough.
    invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and
    stay out of the clutches of mediocrity.

    invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
    change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you.

    reinvigorate yourself and
    accept what is
    but only on the terms that you have invented
    and reinvented.

    be self-taught.

    and reinvent your life because you must;
    it is your life and
    its history
    and the present
    belong only to
    you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned
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    Sarah Kay
    “There was no secret I did not tell him, there was no moment we did not share. We didn't grow up, we grew in; like ivy wrapping, molding each other into perfect yins and yangs”
    ― Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
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    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: books, bookstore, towns
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    Matthew Quick
    “I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do.
    I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.”
    ― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
    tags: angst, depression, fate, resigned, suicidal-thoughts, suicide, teenage-angst
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “What's the bravest thing you ever did?
    He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: bravery, perseverance
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You have my whole heart. You always did.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Women
    tags: bukowski, handsome
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    Jandy Nelson
    “I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”
    ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    R.H. Sin
    “be good to yourself
    you're the only you
    you'll ever get”
    ― R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel III
    tags: hurt, love, poems, poetry, r-h-sin, whiskey-words-and-a-shovel-iii
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    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
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  • #21
    Roman Payne
    “All I want in this life are three...
    a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,
    a breath of opium,
    and thee.”
    ― Roman Payne
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    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    John Steinbeck
    “People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    John D. Barrow
    “Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it

    -Barrow's Uncertainty Principle”
    ― John D. Barrow, 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
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    Thomas Cathcart
    “Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pundits and parents, "Why?”
    ― Thomas Cathcart, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
    tags: bad, children, education, ethics, explanations, good, opinions, parenting, philosophy, punditry, reasons, why
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    Ellen Hopkins
    “I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Crank
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    Sarah Dessen
    “It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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    Sarah Dessen
    “That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: death, life
    4327 likes



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