List your favorite quotes

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." -Rumi

"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust." —Jane Birkin

"When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life." -John Kennedy Toole

"It’s not wrong to want someone to love you. Most people are together just so they are not alone. But some people want magic. I think you are one of those people." — Broken English

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?" -Oscar Wilde 

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." -Ernest Hemingway 

"Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's." -Amelie

"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." -Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

"Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something." —Kurt Vonnegut

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." -Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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