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    “So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.”
    ― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
    tags: gender-identity
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    “I'm still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one's got it all together. I don't think you ever do get it totally together. Probably if you did manage to do it you'd spontaneously combust. I think that's a law of nature. If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.”
    ― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
    tags: perfect, suicide-notes
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    “I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.”
    ― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
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    “It's a really crappy feeling to realize that your entire outook on your life can be controlled by some little pill that looks like a Pez, and that some weird combination of drugs can make your brain think it's on a holiday somewhere really sweet when you're standing naked in the middle of the school cafeteria while everyone takes pictures of you. Metaphorically. Or whatever.”
    ― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
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  • #5
    Alex Sanchez
    “the church should just stay out of people's pants.”
    ― Alex Sanchez, The God Box
    tags: homophobia, organized-religion, religion
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  • #6
    John Knowles
    “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
    tags: a-separate-peace, gene, john-knowles, phineas, tree
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  • #7
    John Knowles
    “Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.”
    ― John Knowles, A Separate Peace
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  • #8
    John Knowles
    “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
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    John Knowles
    “But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.”
    ― John Knowles, A Separate Peace
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  • #10
    John Knowles
    “It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.”
    ― John Knowles, A Separate Peace
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  • #11
    Anne Fadiman
    “If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”
    ― Anne Fadiman
    tags: bibliophile, bibliophiles, books, reader, reading
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  • #12
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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  • #14
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #17
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education-knowledge
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth
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  • #20
    “All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.”
    ― Harvey Milk, The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words
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  • #21
    “Hope will never be silent.”
    ― Harvey Milk
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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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  • #23
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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  • #24
    Ayn Rand
    “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: inspirational, life
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  • #25
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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  • #26
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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  • #27
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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  • #28
    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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  • #29
    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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  • #30
    Groucho Marx
    “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: friends, humor, jail
    10179 likes



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