January 2009
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“‘When may I come and visit you?’ asked Marcel. ‘I’ll paint your...”
– Henry Murger
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“He steps into the mirror, refusing to be anyone else.”
– Frank O’Hara
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“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or...”
– William James (via psychotherapy)
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“and your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow”
– Ani Difranco, Both Hands (via robot-heart)
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“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
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“I would love to be one of those people who’s all: ‘We loved, thank...”
– Cynthia Nixon, Sex and the City
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“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation,...”
– Gene Wilder, Willie Wonka and the Choclate Factory
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“I’ve always had a thing for happy endings; I don’t know why. You...”
– Bruce Willis, The Story of Us
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“If I wake up in the morning and I don’t want to get you a coffee or if I don’t...”
– John Mayer
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“Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not...”
– President Barack Obama January 20, 2009 (via inauguration)
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker (via simko)
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“I’m young, I live in a house my father owns, in a bed my father bought. Nothing...”
– Daniel Stern, The Wonder Years
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“Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via littlemiss)
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
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“Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or...”
– Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
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“With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what...”
– President Barack Obama
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“My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors....”
– Joan Miro
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“There’s a hardness that happens, this dulling of everything that leaves you...”
– andre dubus III, house of sand and fog. (via paperbackgirl)
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“So, my little Amélie, you don’t have bones of glass. You can take life’s knocks....”
– Serge Merlin, Amélie (via movieoftheweek)
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“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel
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“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just...”
– Diane Ackerman
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“Someday, somewhere — anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and...”
– Pablo Neruda
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“I’d like to thank all my dogs, the ones that are here, the ones that aren’t here...”
– Mickey Rourke (via inothernews)
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“…and strangely even that was painful, like the space left by an aching tooth...”
– Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (via robot-heart)
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“I am homesick for a county. I have never been there. I shall never go there. ...”
– Hilde Domin
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“hello babies. welcome to earth. it’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter....”
– Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (via spareunderthemat)
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“When I look at you, I squint. You are that beautiful.”
– Slide by Ani Difranco (via lyricallysomething)
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“…occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp,...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (via headlights)
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“This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (via bluorchid)
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“Give me one reason to stay here, and I’ll turn right back around.”
– Give Me One Reason, Tracy Chapman (via lyricallysomething)
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“‘I don’t like girls in the daytime,’ he said shortly, and then,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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“You’ve got to own your own days and name them, each one of them, every one of...”
– Herb Gardner
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“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to...”
– Nick Hornby, About A Boy
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“I’d sleep next to you on the bus. Once my head slipped onto your shoulder while...”
– Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland (via jmme)
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“Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do...”
– Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy
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“For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever...”
– Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via likepuzzlepieces)
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“There are millions of people out there, that in the end, it all comes down to...”
– Kirsten Dunst, Crazy/Beautiful
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for...”
– Soren Kierkegaard. (via lickystickypicky)
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“People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto (via frecklesmakemestrong)
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“That boy’s got a heart the size of Kentucky, and he loves you. That’s important.”
– Nicholas Sparks, The Guardian
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between notes and curl my back...”
– Maya Angelou (via aja)
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“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...”
– Neil Gaiman (via suzywire)
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“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly...”
– Anne Lamott (via suzywire)
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“I hadn’t understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger (via hellovagina)
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“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong...”
– Barbara Hall (via thresca)
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“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
– Oprah Winfrey (via onherway)