July 2008
66 posts
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“It had become the focus of everything. It was all I could feel, all I could...”
– Claire Danes, My So-Called Life
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“The time to make up your mind about people…is never.”
– Katherine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
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“stop the self-defeating lies you’ve been repeating.”
– The Weakerthans, Plea From A Cat Named Virtute
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“‘Darling!’,she said, ‘I wish I could live in your...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz (via scout)
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“I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you...”
– Candice Bergen (via enquotations)
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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that...”
– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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“Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving...”
– Brian Andreas
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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“the higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. right at the top, if...”
– Fred Astaire (via sarazucker)
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“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via antoinetta)
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the...”
– Mark Twain
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“Never judge a book by its movie.”
– J.W. Eagan
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“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and...”
– Paulo Coelho
“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map...”
– Muhammad Ali
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“I look down the tracks and see you coming - and out of the haze and mist your...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald - letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is...”
– Mark Twain (via onherway)
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“I’ll give you all night movie marathon and a triple espresso so you can stay...”
– The Cat Empire, Lullaby
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“My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes...”
– Ginger Rogers
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“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the...”
– Langston Hughes
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“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not...”
– Gilda Radner (via riotrepublic)
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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via bellechoses)
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“Balance, equality, mutual everything! There’s no room in marriage for what...”
– Katherine Hepburn, Adam’s Rib
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“Sometimes it seems like we’re all living in some kind of prison. And the...”
– Claire Danes, My So-Called Life
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“When you drive down the road and the radio is blaring and the wind is blasting...”
– Thomas Humphrey
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“Why do we hurtle ourselves through every inch of time and space. I must say...”
– Indigo Girls, Get Out the Map
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“You’ll be grateful that a long time ago this kind of person chose to be...”
– Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There Would Be Cake
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“At the root of all glamour, there is confidence.”
– Isaac Mizrahi (via emilyposts)
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“I know that if you think life’s a vending machine where you put in virtue...”
– Tina Holmes, Six Feet Under
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“Riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
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“Society has a right to protect itself, but it doesn’t have a right to be...”
– David Proval, The West Wing
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“Do you ever find yourself being a much more horrible person than you really are?...”
– Julia Whelan, Once and Again
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“The political is personal.”
– Blue Scholars
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“And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I...”
– Robert Frost (via robot-heart)
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“Whatever it is, if it doesn’t make you happy, walk away, give it away to someone...”
– Ramtha (via scout)
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“There’s a trick to the “graceful exit.” It begins with the vision to recognize...”
– Ellen Goodman (via onherway)
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“If there’s a battle, I hope my head always defers to my heart.”
– Tracy Chapman, Matters of the Heart
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“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.’”
– Marlene Dietrich (via onherway)
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“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but...”
– Brian Andreas
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“I lost it. I lost it all- faith, dignity… about 15 pounds.”
– John Cusack, High Fidelity
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“When the fall is all there is, it matters.”
– Anthony Hopkins, The Lion in Winter
“No door slams like a screen door.”
– J.D. Salinger, The Young Folks (via scout)
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“[on the federal government] We’re like the mob, but less violent, although...”
– Allison Janney, The West Wing
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“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety,...”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“Newspapers will run a headline: ‘Shark kills human.’ You never see a headline...”
– Gary Larson (via affremblequotes)
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“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via danhacker)
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“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having...”
– A. A. Milne (via unicornology)
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“It is not a time in which to complete anything. It is a time for fragments.”
– Marcel Duchamp
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“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”
– Jim Morrison (via Jacque) (via jeremyk) 