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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
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    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    ― August Wilson
    tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength
    4211 likes

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  • #5
    Francis Crick
    “There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.”
    ― Francis Crick
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  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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  • #7
    Sharon Pollock
    “There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
    ― Sharon Pollock
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    Beverly Cleary
    “She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”
    ― Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest
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    Karen Blixen
    “I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    ― Karen Blixen
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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  • #11
    Seamus Heaney
    “If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
    ― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
    tags: expression, finding-your-voice, poetry
    2622 likes

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  • #12
    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    ― François Rabelais
    tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter
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    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
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  • #14
    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    ― Robert Bloch
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    Seán O'Casey
    “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
    ― Sean O'Casey
    tags: joy, laughter
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
    ― Amy Sedaris
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    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
    ― Mario Vargas Llosa
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    Henri Murger
    “The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
    ― Henry Murger
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  • #19
    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: courage, talent
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    Maya Angelou
    “Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #21
    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    ― Washington Irving
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  • #22
    René Descartes
    “I think; therefore I am.”
    ― Rene Descartes
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  • #23
    Kate DiCamillo
    “Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
    tags: edward
    3192 likes

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  • #24
    Tennessee Williams
    “I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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  • #25
    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
    tags: inspirational, writing
    4694 likes

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  • #26
    Neil LaBute
    “The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
    ― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty
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  • #27
    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “A roll of the dice will never abolish chance.”
    ― Stéphane Mallarmé
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  • #28
    Ben Okri
    “Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
    ― Ben Okri
    tags: stories
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  • #29
    Sylvia Beach
    “I am a citizen of the world.”
    ― Sylvia Beach
    tags: citizenship, identity, world
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  • #30
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: brain, mind
    3732 likes



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