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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#real-life-struggle #sex #life

I don't believe this," Morelli yelled. "I don't fucking believe this. What do you do, sit in bed at night and think about ways to fuck up my life? ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#stephanie-plum #life

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#life

What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life

Breathing in the scent of his hair,I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved my life and refused to abandon me no matter how much I deserved it. ↗

— Jodi Meadows

#romance #souls #ya #life

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#artists #falsification #gain #greed #honesty

The great essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#life #purpose #life

I swear by my life and my love of it that I shall not live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#philosophy #life

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#delirium #london #love #life

The way through the world Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#life #poetry #spirit #life