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  • #246
    Jarod Kintz
    “My advice for a person who's just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms...faster.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me
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  • #248
    Jarod Kintz
    “I want to go to sleep in my time machine and wake up eight hours in the future.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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  • #249
    Jarod Kintz
    “When I saw you, I saw love. When I saw you naked, I saw lust. When I saw you with my clone in a dream, I saw the future.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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  • #250
    Jarod Kintz
    “She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
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  • #252
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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  • #253
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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  • #254
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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  • #255
    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
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  • #256
    John Green
    “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: johngreen, lookingforalaska
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  • #257
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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  • #258
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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  • #259
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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  • #260
    Nicholas Sparks
    “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: inspirational, the-notebook
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  • #261
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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  • #262
    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: alone, attributed-no-source
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  • #263
    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
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  • #264
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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  • #265
    Suzanne Collins
    “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    tags: peeta
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  • #266
    “One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
    ― Tim Burton
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  • #267
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: insanity, love, marriage
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  • #268
    “I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: insanity, stupidity
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  • #269
    William Shakespeare
    “Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Richard III
    tags: insanity, women
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  • #270
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels
    tags: brinksmanship, crazy, crisis, insanity
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  • #271
    Christopher Moore
    “If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
    ― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping
    tags: humor, insanity, sanity
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  • #272
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: insanity, inspiration
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  • #273
    Susanna Kaysen
    “Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.”
    ― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
    tags: crazy, friendship, insanity, madness
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  • #274
    Emilie Autumn
    “Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.”
    ― Emilie Autumn
    tags: awareness, insanity
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  • #275
    Terry Pratchett
    “Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: drunkenness, insanity
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  • #276
    Brandon Sanderson
    “People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
    tags: humor, insanity
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  • #277
    Rita Mae Brown
    “Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown, Sudden Death
    tags: insanity, misattributed-jane-fulton, paraphrasing-narcotics-anonymous
    213 likes



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