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Carrie’s Quotes

“If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

tags: apathy, fame, pleasure

815 likes

“Her coming was my hope each day,
Her parting was my pain;
The chance that did her steps delay
Was ice in every vein.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

459 likes

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

14046 likes

“There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin”
― Bob Dylan, Tarantula

63 likes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119694 likes

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