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English is so fucked up for not having a bon appetit/guten appetit/eet smakelijk esque saying

—Eartha Kitt

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

”Letter to Isabelle Amorous”

Feb 1920

“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that’s when you know the love was real.”

—Jenny Han

“There’s daggers in men’s smiles.”

—Donalbain (Macbeth, Act II scene iii)

Life is hard, then you die

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David Gerrold

The past is a foreign country; people behave differently there. - L P Hartley

I’d let her ride my face like the Lone Ranger on Silver chasing the bad guy’s 😂😂😂😂

—Vladimir Nabokov

in a letter to his wife [24 march 1937] from letters to Véra

“There are two types of people you will meet in your life. One will run a finger down the index of who you are and jump straight to the parts of you that peak their interest. The other will take his or her time reading through every one of your chapters and maybe unfold corners of you that inspired them most. You will meet these two people; it is a given. It is the third that you’ll never see coming. That one person who not only finishes your sentences, but keeps the book.”

“Every star may be a sun to someone.”

—Carl Sagan

“The best way to know life is to love many things.”

—Vincent van Gogh

“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”

—Rita Mae Brown

“The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.”

“You need no-one’s permission but your own to be whole.”

—Michael Bernard Beckwith

“You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.”

—Cynthia Hand

“When you die, trust me, the most difficult person to leave behind is yourself.”

—Chuck Palahniuk

“Don’t take my advice. Or anyone’s advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it’s your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.”

—Nicholas Sparks

“Don’t turn from me, please. Take me in your arms. Gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart—and you’ll see how nice I can be.”

—Jean-Paul Sartre

“But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”

—Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“I don’t like being asked the same thing twice. I like people to understand at the first word. Some things can’t be explained.”

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We didn’t need words, we just looked at each other and smiled.”

"I don't believe in God, but I miss Him" - Julian Barnes

“Usually I read several books at a time—old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything—and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile. There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch—mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called “powerful” novel—full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog—in fact, when I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher—“hoping that I like the book as much as he does”—I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang and ban it from my bed.”

—Vladimir Nabokov

on his reading habits(from the Playboy interview, January 1964)

“(e.e.)cummings was a favorite of many reading-addicted teenagers of my generation: It’s a shame that he’s dropped – for the moment – so much out of favor. His work was a constant example of how to mix figurative language, demotic language, slang, play with punctuation, play with typography – and still write a metrically impeccable poem.”

—Marilyn Hacker

on e.e. cummings, in a conversation  

—Charles Beaudelaire

 “The Flowers of Evil”

Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列) (1969) Dir. Matsumoto Toshio

Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.

—Chuck Berry

The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches.

—Edith Wharton