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“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ―Pablo Picasso 🌺 🌼 🌸
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“Each time I see a beautiful sunset or sunrise, I have to pinch myself because I can't believe that I'm awake and not dreaming.” ―Anthony T. Hincks 🌅
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―the ghost flowers 💐
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“Las Vegas and the American Dream: two ideas intertwined like crossed fingers on a bloated corpse.” ―Jonathan Heatt 🚣 💦
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“Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.” ―Gary Shteyngart 🌺 🎨 🌸
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“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.” ―Charlotte Eriksson ☀️
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la douleur exquise 🎲
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“Lourdes was an intoxicating place. I remember thinking that it was probably what Las Vegas would have been like if casinos and nightclubs had been replaced by Catholicism.” ―Arthur Matthews 🍹🐸
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“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” ―F. Scott Fitzgerald 🎲
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” ―Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion ☕️ 🍹
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―purple rain 💎
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―the fish swims alone 🐠 💦
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the smitten kitten 👠
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“There are no mysteries, no things intrinsically unknowable ... only things that we do not understand yet.” ―Caesar to Cleopatra 🎲
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“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” ―John Updike 🗽
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“Perhaps one of the most under-acknowledged elements of totalitarianism is the rise to political and social power of a corrupt business and governing class as well as a class of intellectuals that find corruption funny rather than outrageous.”
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“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.” ―Carlos Ruiz Zafón 🌃
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“Love is just another dirty lie. / Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.” ―Ernest Hemingway 🌸 🎲 🐦
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“And we can't stop, yeah / And we won't stop, oh / Can't you see it's we who own the night?” ―Miley Cyrus 🎭
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“So victory is sweet but unfair, because are you really winning when you're the only one there?” ―Tunde Wey
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“I can see your halo (halo) halo” ―Beyoncé 😇
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“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ―Steve Maraboli 🎲
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“The road to totalitarian domination leads through many intermediate stages for which we can find numerous analogies and precedents.” ―Hannah Arendt 🎲
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“It's our party / we can do what we want” ―Miley Cyrus 🎭
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Ring Around the Rosie 🐴 🌺 🐴
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“Who wants to celebrate? / I don't have time to sit and wait / I gave it everything / And I just wanted you to feel the same” ―Metric 🎭
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“I'm just a bachelor / I'm looking for a partner / Someone who knows how to ride / Without even falling off” ―Ginuwine 🎭
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“Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.” ―Hunter S. Thompson 🎭
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“Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did ... backwards and in high heels." ―Bob Thaves 👠
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“I know that we will live forever now / But even so / I should know you better by now / I know” ―The Prides 🎭
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“Ride it, my pony / My saddle's waiting / Come and jump on it” ―Ginuwine 🐴
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“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.” ―Sue Monk Kidd 🌸 🎲 🌺 💦
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“As if you [white, male] motherfuckers weren’t the ones who created labels and refused/refuses to see beyond them and based those labels on our perceived lack of humanity.” ―Damon Young 🎲
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“Who can adequately express [their] astonishment at the changes of fortune, and the mysterious vicissitudes in human affairs.” ―Marcus Velleius Paterculus 🎲 🎢
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“‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.” ―Henry Ward Beecher 💡
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“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), / It's always our self we find in the sea.” ―E.E. Cummings 💦 ⛲️
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“Sitting at the table and eating food from someone else’s hands affords you the privilege of not knowing the effort, be it minimal or extreme, it took to get to you.” ―Mayukh Sen 🍡🍪🍢
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“Arendt’s inquiry into the elements of totalitarian domination teaches us we must never let go of the fear of totalitarian government.” ―Roger Berkowitz 🎲
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“We accept the love we think we deserve.” ―Stephen Chbosky ⛲️ 💦
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“A world populated by people unmasked, their secrets exposed, would be one where all immorality is shameless and all claims to respectability are hypocritical.” ―Roger Berkowitz
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“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.” ―Alexandre Dumas 🌸 🎲 🌺
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“The trouble with love is that it comes with the guarantee of nothing.” —Buzz Bissinger
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“The people who say New York never sleeps must have never visited Las Vegas.” ―Michelle Madow, The Secret Diamond Sisters 🎲
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Viva Las Flores 🎲 ☕️ 🌼
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“Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words, the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds.” ―Toba Beta 💦
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“...women were mere currency to be exchanged in service of proving everyone else’s humanity but their own.” ―Mayukh Sen 💎
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“It is easier for men to destroy the light within them than to resist the darkness around them.” ― “Nochnoi Dozor” / “Night Watch” [Russian Film, 2004]
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“Open your eyes I see / Your eyes are open / Wear no disguise for me / Come into the open” ―Erasure 🐎
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“I love eating chicken with my bare hands. It makes me want to snarl at people, even more than usual.” ―Jeri Smith-Ready 🍗
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“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.” ―Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters 🗼
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“Are you latte-ing away your financial future?” ―David Bach 🍪 ☕️
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“Laws can go only so far, and at the crucial moment they fail us. They are a poor substitute for justice.” —Cleopatra
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“But shame and hypocrisy are essential human drives. The rage against hypocrisy is a rage against civilized life.” ―Roger Berkowitz 💒
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“In truth, I count no man happy until his death, for no man can know what the gods may have in store for him.” —Solon the Wise
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“Hate the sin, love the sinner.” ―Mahatma Gandhi 🏰
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“Suddenly, the taboo of the pregnant body turned into a spectacle that could be stylized, exploited, scrutinized, and interpreted as emblematic of a woman’s overarching success or failure.” —Anne Helen Petersen
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“No one here gets out alive.” ―Jim Morrison 🌸 🎲 🌺 💦
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“The danger in totalitarian movements is that the elite’s justified moral disgust at hypocrisy is translated into a carnival of destruction that is just so much fun.” ―Roger Berkowitz
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Movements “conjure up a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself.” —Hannah Arendt
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Trumpzilla is “a litigious serial liar with a string of broken business ventures and the support of a former Klan leader.” —John Oliver
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