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Finagle's Eighth Rule:
Teamwork is essential. It allows you to blame someone else.


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Out
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Highest
Effo...
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To just let it tell <...
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by
a
boy.

A boy that I'm seriously, dee...
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All the tears,
the mistakes…
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Viola: In Orsino's bosom.
Olivia: In his bosom! In wha...
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PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Love Sonnet XI

PABLO NERUDA They'll use guns and they'll use words, and the worst part of all is that you might listen wh...
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A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I sa...
EMILY DICKINSON Note to self ;
He doesn't care anymore.
LYLA TYELA BELIKOV The Night in Isla Negra

PABLO NERUDA love, n.

I'm not even going to try.
DAVID LEVITHAN Olivia: How does he love me?
Viola: With adoration, with fertile tears,
With...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE McCoy: Oh, there isn't any shortage of views clamoring to challenge my own. That's what we ca...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN suffuse, v.

I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your ha...
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(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.

Lucif...
MIKE CAREY B-12 is important to get through the diet and there are not animal supplementations of B-12. It is a...
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The film turns out to be about bees. It is a film about a bee center. How crap i...
LOUISE RENNISON Some say freedom is a gift placed in our hands by our forefathers.
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PATRICK NESS Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and ...
CHARLES DE LINT Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emÿna daÿda"

[modern: Minä tahdon k...
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Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever...
DAVID LEVITHAN Nathan "N.R." Gaddis did not say ::

2109 fellow Goodreaders [can’t be wrong] gave [K...
NATHAN "N.R." GADDIS Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I...
RAYMOND CARVER Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cau...
DOROTHY PARKER Q: Why do you blog?

A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequentl...
OPHELIA BENSON I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
N. B.: This ...
BIBLE exacerbate, v.

I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotion...
DAVID LEVITHAN Four lines, and the world went quiet.

I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum PATRICK NESS Hanlon's Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupid...
ANON. Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to ...
PATRICK NESS Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.

Note: Dawkins was...
RICHARD DAWKINS Thank you, Edward. You really are special. Being able to create something so wonderful.....But it's ...
HIROMU ARAKAWA misgivings, n.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted...
DAVID LEVITHAN corrode, v.

I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I...
DAVID LEVITHAN I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
CHARLES M. SCHULZ To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY yearning, n. and adj.

At the core of this desire is the belief that ...
DAVID LEVITHAN In this world . . .

It's Heaven when:
The French are chefs
The British a...
HIDEKAZ HIMARUYA This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS DAD: Why didn't you say this when it happened?
ME: It's complicated.
Don't they know that ...
A.S. KING I got an A on the third quiz in American history,
an A,
dammit.
Last time I got a ...
THALIA CHALTAS Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out.
They're fucking with th...
ROBERT KIRKMAN The Cloudy Vase

Past time, I threw the flowers out,
washed out the cloudy vas...
JANE HIRSHFIELD Ebb

I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a holl...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that ...
BILL WILLINGHAM Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

Much Madness is divinest Sense —
To a discer...
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THOMAS PAINE libidinous, adj.

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor....
DAVID LEVITHAN But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to...
PATRICK NESS breathtaking, adj.

Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour be...
DAVID LEVITHAN OLYMPAS:
There is one doubt. When souls attain
Such an unimagined gain
Shall n...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'
Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he mutt...
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PABLO NERUDA Ἀποσκότησόν μου
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VIKRANT PARSAI There are only two sane people in this world, you and me... and I am not too sure about you!
JOHN BANKSON A Man Said to the Universe

A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!” STEPHEN CRANE The ocean burned.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the Desert

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squ...
STEPHEN CRANE To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human.
UNKNOWN My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B'...
BOOBOO STEWART History is:

+ the lies of the victors

+ the self-delusions of the defea...
BARNES JULIAN Holy Hawt Chemisty, Batman!
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Chapter 1.
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion...no, make t...
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Now that we’ve given our hearts away
With the bric-a-brac, we want them...
LISEL MUELLER At Night

Love said, "Wake still and think of me,"
Sleep, "Close your eyes til...
SARA TEASDALE There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was ac...
PATRICK NESS I'm fairly certain that A is better than B and that B is better than C. I'm not sure if I can say A ...
DAN GEER WHO CALLS UPON THE HIGH WARLOCK?
CASSANDRA CLARE The Great and Tragic Love of Jonathan Shadowhunter and David the Silent, by Clary Fray, Aged 1...
CASSANDRA CLARE When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY abyss, n.

There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything...
DAVID LEVITHAN Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE She looked across the room at Will , she wasn't sure why, only to find that he w...
CASSANDRA CLARE Six Beliefs That Set the Course of Your Life

1. If you don’t believe the impossi...
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