November 2011
47 posts
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Yes, yes, I know. It’s easier to download music, and probably cheaper. But...
– Nick Hornby (via generationoffauxromantics)
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....
– Isaac Asimov (via azspot)
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I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the...
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural...
– Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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I know what she’s talking about. The something deeper and more secret....
– John Green, Paper Towns
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling...
– Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
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Whatever else kayaking is, it is a form of work, and work, starting with the...
– David Gessner, My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River In Pursuit of a New Environmentalism
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Let me tell you a few things about regret… There is no end to it. You cannot...
– Janet Fitch
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If you’ve got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread,...
– Steve Martin
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Wouldn’t it just rock and roll if liking someone meant they had to like you...
– Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daises
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Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel...
– Andrew Boy
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Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we...
– Frank Warren
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After their first year or so, Lou’s beauty no longer surprised him. He...
– Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
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You don’t know this yet, but life isn’t supposed to be like this. It’s not...
– Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who...
– Barbara Kingsolver
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Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe...
– Noam Chomsky
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When you date someone, it’s like you’re taking a class in them and when you...
– Josh Radnor, How I Met Your Mother (via quoteworld)
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment...
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a...
– Chinua Achebe
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In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your...
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
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It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you...
– Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
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You’re so money and you don’t even know it!
– Vince Vaughn, Swingers
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One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.
– Charles Dickens
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The saddest part of a broken heart /
Isn’t the ending so much as the start /...
– Feist, Let it die
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Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a...
– Nancy Linn-Desmond
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I’ve always been amazed that the very people forced to live in the worst...
– Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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When I’m not afraid to fail, I wont. When I’m not afraid to fall...
– Jan Denise
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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
– Maria Edgeworth (via quote-book)
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Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me...
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I’ve been dumped before, Renee. This isn’t pain I’m feeling,...
– Calista Flockhart, Ally McBeal
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
– Tennessee Williams
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Remember, ‘No one’s more important than people’! In other...
– Julia Child, My Life in France
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Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick...
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via gaywrites)
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This is the last of Earth! I am content!
– President John Quincy Adams
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Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for...
– Margaret Atwood
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to...
– Homer
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The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me,...
– Chuck Close
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Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an...
– Walter Cronkite
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Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.
– Tennessee Williams
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Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a...
– Michael Johnson
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November — with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets...
– L. M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle (via printed-ink)
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Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what...
– John Mayer
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We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each...
– David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy (via lisapizza)