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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    “Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.”
    ― Allan Sherman
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex
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  • #6
    Sarah Dessen
    “After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: neurosis
    3696 likes

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  • #8
    C.G. Jung
    “Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: eating, shame
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  • #9
    Tupac Shakur
    “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
    ― Tupac Shakur
    tags: moving-on
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    David Levithan
    “It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
    ― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
    tags: betrayal, trust
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  • #11
    Colum McCann
    “Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.”
    ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
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    Stanley Kubrick
    “I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
    ― Stanley Kubrick
    tags: education, fear, interest, learning
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  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: confidences, secrets, sharing-secrets
    3940 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: fight-club, narrator, palahniuk
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Charles Bukowski
    “New affairs were exciting but they
    were also hard work. The first kiss, the first fuck had some drama. People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Sarah Dessen
    “But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: adversity, contrast, life
    680 likes

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    Sergei Lukyanenko
    “I believe it, she's a very good person, kind. There's weariness there, but no bitterness or spite. When you're with a girl like that you feel like a different person. You try to be better, and that's a strain. Men prefer to be friends with her kind, flirt a bit, share confidences. They don't often fall in love with girls like that, but everybody loves them.”
    ― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
    tags: confidant, just-friends, kind, love
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: choke, disease, doctors, life, medical-training, medicine, palahniuk, physicians, waiting
    402 likes

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    Colum McCann
    “And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.”
    ― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
    tags: calling, love, men, relationships
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  • #24
    Charles Bukowski
    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
    22054 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: courage
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    Anaïs Nin
    “When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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  • #29
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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  • #30
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
    98 likes



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