May 2013
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April 2013
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12 Things Every "The Great Gatsby" Buff Should... →
This celebrated literary classic was almost titled Gold-Hatted Gatsby.
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“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”
– Emile Zola, Germinal
March 2013
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“No rest without love,
no sleep without dreams of love-
be mad or chill...”
– Allen Ginsberg, “Song”
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“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for...”
– Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol.2
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“And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been...”
– Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
February 2013
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“Whoever controls the past controls the future; whoever controls the present,...”
– George Orwell, 1984
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“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and...”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
January 2013
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“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And...”
– Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
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December 2012
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“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple”
– Oscar Wilde (via tattoolit)
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“There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.”
– Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
November 2012
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“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I’m still trying to figure out how...”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via ender-andrew-wiggin)
September 2012
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“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In...”
– Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
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“I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”
– Maya Angelou (via tattoolit)
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“We were together. I forget the rest.”
– Walt Whitman
August 2012
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“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...”
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary: A Novel
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July 2012
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“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
June 2012
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“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens...”
– Aldous Huxley
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“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order...”
– Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde
May 2012
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“Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.”
– the Duchess, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (via fluorescent———adolescent)
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
– Ernest Hemingway (via fluorescent———adolescent)
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“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitgerald
April 2012
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“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall...”
– Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
March 2012
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“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
– Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
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“It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
– Sylvia Plath; The Bell Jar (via ohsokatiediane)
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“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via damninsomniac)
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“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via bardsandsages)
February 2012
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“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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“We couldn’t imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists...”
– The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides (via beautyisanillusion)
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“Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via megustacupcakes)
January 2012
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
– Virginia Woolf 