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• Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen. It’s not going to happen!

  Regina George

  Mean Girls, Trying, Fetch

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• What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Skills, Perfect, Achieve

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• I’m sorry that people are so jealous of me [Gretchen Wieners], but I can’t help it that I’m popular.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Mean Girls, Sorry, Jealous

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• Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the foundation of your sannyas and then the temple can be raised very easily. It is easy to raise the temple once the foundation is rightly put. This is the foundation stone: remember that existence loves you, cares about you, is concerned about you; that you are not alienated, that you are not a stranger, that you are part of this great symphony, this orchestra, this celebration that goes on and on and knows no ending.

  Rajneesh

  Love You, Symphony, Care

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• I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.

  Vera Brittain

  War, Eye, Writing

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• I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.

  Tennessee Williams

  Home, Thinking, Two

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.116, New Directions Publishing

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• When dreams come true in reality they never feel the same as when you imagine them, and you know what that means? It means that no matter how good things are, maybe they’ll never be good enough, and there’s something seriously wrong with that.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Dream, Reality, Matter

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.124, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• But it’s there. Just because I haven’t told anyone doesn’t mean it isn’t there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can’t get out of your head.

  Meg Cabot

  Song, Nsync, Mind

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

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• But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Strong, Regret, Pain

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• ...and when you’ve known me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies.

  George R. R. Martin

  Lying, Known

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.378, Bantam

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• I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

  Kristin Davis

  Snakes, Pet, Insane

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• Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.

  Nancy Bird Walton

  Independent, Flew

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• From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.

  William Barrett

  Philosophy, Spring, Character

  William Barrett (1978). “The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization”, Anchor Books

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• There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.

  Dani Shapiro

  Beautiful, Jobs, Expression

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

  Tony Wilson

  People, Special, Investment

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• The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

  Alan Coren

  Provocative, Policy, Accidents

  The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions 'A Short History of Insurance'

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• It's sort of like a mockery in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers when there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. I mean the ones that wonder around and know, at the same time, and yet wear flowers, and they deserve to wear flowers. And they've earned their smile...you can tell by people's eyes.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Flower, Eye, Reality

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.

  Medard Boss

  Persistence, Men, Perception

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• But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Forever, Want, Immortal Life

  Rebecca Skloot (2010). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.310, Broadway Books

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• Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

  Thomas Hooker

  Secret, Comfort, Looks

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• To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Integrity, Crazy, Moving

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• Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don't change. They don't develop. They don't — it's that continual read, that process which is is the total threat for the ego.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Children, People, Ego

  "Edie: Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.

  Kate Morton

  Clever, Independent, Adventure

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm older and have a kid, I like success on my own, but I always enjoyed all my parts playing the fifth wheel. I mean, just loved it. There was such freedom in it and I still got to enjoy watching everyone work.

  Selma Blair

  Kids, Enjoy

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• Aggression means emotions. Emotions means you’re gonna get off your plan and that means you’ll lose the fight.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Fighting, Emotion

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