QUOTES.

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Post a quote, any quote. A quote that you can relate to, or one that is funny. One that is sad and one that will make us think. Write down your favorite quote. Write a quote that you wish you had written yourself.

And I'll do the same.

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Oscar Wilde

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Re: Oscar Wilde

[chimneysmoke]

This was my senior yearbook quote.

Robert Frost

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T.S. Eliot (Excerpts from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)

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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes

Marilyn Monroe

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"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."

"I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since."

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

Naomi Shihab Nye

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The river is famous to the fish.

The loud voice is famous to silence,
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.

The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.

The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.

The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom.

The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.

The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.

I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.