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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe
Print this on canvas →The quotes I keep close to the desk. Marilyn, Biggie, Jackie, Mary Oliver, and the philosophers I came up reading. Plus a few of mine — the lines that started in a notebook and never let me put them away. Use them. Print them. Tattoo them. Just say where they came from.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
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.
I refuse to be ordinary or to be tied down to the role that society expects me to play.
There are two kinds of women: those who want power in the world, and those who want power in bed.
Stay far from timid. Only make moves when your heart's in it.
It was all a dream.
Sometimes you gotta lose 'til you win.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Instructions for living a life: pay attention, be astonished, tell about it.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
If you don't have a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Promise me I do not have to keep earning basic love.
Tolerance is the rent you pay to keep a life you've outgrown.
What you stopped asking for is what you're still owed.
The exit is a direction, not a door.
The story isn't true because it's familiar. It's familiar because you keep telling it.
Insight without action is just a well-informed stuck person.
Quiet power is the gap between feeling it and being run by it.
The function of the writer is to make it impossible for anyone to ignore the world any longer.
The Margins is the version of my work with the edits still showing. Long-form essays, raw frameworks, voice notes, and the half-finished sentences that turn into the published ones eight months later.
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