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#1

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#2

“You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#3

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor

7634 likes

#4

“No problem. First one's free.”
― Lili St. Crow, Strange Angels

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#5

“I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”
― Lili St. Crow, Jealousy

tags: death, holding-on, leaving, left, loneliness, strange-angels

747 likes

#6

“spy" -zach”
― Ally Carter, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

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#7

“I always finish what i start”
― Ally Carter, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

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#8

“I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: age, religion

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#9

“I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#10

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

13157 likes

#11

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-reading

8494 likes

#12

“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

tags: humor

5068 likes

#13

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: humor, talking, writers

4820 likes

#14

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: reading-secrets

3713 likes

#15

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: aspirations, disappointment, disillusionment, goals

860 likes

#16

“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

1823 likes

#17

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

3616 likes

#18

“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

216 likes

#19

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: hindsight, regret

3228 likes

#20

“To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor

1776 likes

#21

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: life, nature, philosophy

2747 likes

#22

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: hate, self-loathing

2879 likes

#23

“I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

457 likes

#24

“If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

159 likes

#25

“And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

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#26

“I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: this-side-of-paradise

559 likes

#27

“The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: human-nature

689 likes

#28

“I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

tags: choke, forgotten, heart-ache

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#29

“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: fight-club, narrator, palahniuk

748 likes

#30

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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