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  • #1
    D.H. Lawrence
    “But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #2
    D.H. Lawrence
    “They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #3
    D.H. Lawrence
    “It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #4
    Marilyn Monroe
    “A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #5
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #6
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

  • #10
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #11
    D.H. Lawrence
    “We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #12
    D.H. Lawrence
    “What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #13
    D.H. Lawrence
    “Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #14
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #15
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #16
    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #17
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I restore myself when I'm alone.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #18
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. ”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #19
    George Orwell
    “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
    George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

  • #20
    George Orwell
    “Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”
    George Orwell

  • #21
    George Orwell
    “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
    George Orwell

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater—'
    'She's foul enough to be one…'
    'Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters', said Sirius with a wry smile. 'I know she’s a nasty piece of work though'.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work… It would be more useful than divination, anyway…”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #24
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “Giggling should be made illegal.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #26
    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

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love”
    Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: love

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Circumstances should never alter principles!”
    Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
    Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
    And falsehoods the truths of other people.
    Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
    To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
    Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

  • #30
    John Green
    “because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
    John Green



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