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    Jennifer Egan
    “I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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    “Sissy Mae Smith...stumbled into the room loaded down with even more bags. "You pack like a woman," she snarled when she finally dropped the luggage to the floor. "How can one man have so much conditioner?"

    His mouth filled with French toast, Mitch pointed at his hair and snarled, "Tawny mane! Do you think this shit stays this beautiful on its own? It needs care and love! Which is more than I'm getting from you!”
    ― Shelly Laurenston, The Mane Squeeze
    tags: humor, mitch, sissy
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    Jeffrey McDaniel
    “Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
    like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”
    ― Jeffrey McDaniel
    tags: devotion, fidelity, love, obsession
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: books, learning, love, serenity
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    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational
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    George Eliot
    “And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: men-women
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    John Green
    “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege
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    John Green
    “Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Dave Barry
    “The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”
    ― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50
    tags: driving, human-beings, united
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    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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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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    Jen Campbell
    “CUSTOMER: Hi, I just wanted to ask: did Anne Frank ever write a sequel?
    BOOKSELLER: ........
    CUSTOMER: I really enjoyed her first book.
    BOOKSELLER: Her diary?
    CUSTOMER: Yes, the diary.
    BOOKSELLER: Her diary wasn’t fictional.
    CUSTOMER: Really?
    BOOKSELLER: Yes... She really dies at the end – that’s why the diary finishes. She was taken to a concentration camp.
    CUSTOMER: Oh... that’s terrible.
    BOOKSELLER: Yes, it was awful -
    CUSTOMER: I mean, it’s such a shame, you know? She was such a good writer.”
    ― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
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    Jen Campbell
    “CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don’t remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me laugh. Do you know which one I mean?”
    ― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
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    Alfred Döblin
    “I read like the flame reads the wood.”
    ― Alfred Döblin
    tags: reading-books
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary tale of the seductions of the written word. It became a vision of the afterlife as a library, of heaven as a funky old camper filled with everything you've ever read. What is this heaven? What is it we desire from the hours, weeks, lifetimes we devote to books? What would you sacrifice to sit in that comfy chair with perfect light for an afternoon in eternity, reading the perfect book, forever?”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Night Bookmobile
    tags: books, reading-books
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
    ― Francis Bacon, The Essays
    tags: reading, reading-books
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    Tiffany Madison
    “If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”
    ― Tiffany Madison
    tags: novel, publishing, reading, reading-books, reading-readers-writers, writing, writing-philosophy
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, Complete Works
    tags: poetry
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    J.R. Ward
    “You are a manipulator.
    I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
    ― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal
    tags: brothers, comedy, dark, euphemism, label, manipulation
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    Criss Jami
    “Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
    ― Criss Jami
    tags: agenda, bad-influence, compulsive-liar, controlling, craftsman, deception, destruction, dishonest, influence, lies, manipulation, media, mislead, slander, speak, true
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    George R.R. Martin
    “When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: chess-pieces, knowing-your-opponent, manipulation, pawns
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    Frank Herbert
    “Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: belief, kindlehighlight, knowledge, manipulation, propoganda, truth
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Love without sacrifice is like theft”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: compromise, love, manipulation, marriage, marriage-advice, narcissism, narcissists, passive-aggressive, passive-aggressiveness, real-love, relationships, sacrifice, true-love
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    Harriet B. Braiker
    “If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.”
    ― Harriet B. Braiker, Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life
    tags: addiction, approval-of-others, manipulation
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    Kresley Cole
    “I have an idea. Let's take off our clothes and fool around on the settee. If I trip and fall and land smack-dab on your cock, then it won't be your fault.”
    ― Kresley Cole, Lothaire
    tags: ellie, lothaire
    107 likes



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