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"To write is to live twice.
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— Anais Nim

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" The early bird might get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese from the trap."
— Unknown

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"Normal is just a setting on the washing machine."
— Unknown

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"I'd stop craving chocolate but I am not a quitter."
— Unknown

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"Once you learn to read, you will forever be free."
— Frederick Douglas

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,762 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,111 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
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"If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!"
— Shel Silverstein

tags: poetry
369 people liked it

"Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground."
— Judith Thurman

tags: dreamer, explore, travel
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"Life's like a movie/
Write your own ending.
Keep believing, keep pretending.
We've done just what/
We set out to do.
The lovers, the dreamers, and you"
— Kermit the Frog

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"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
— Laozi

tags: life, travel
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"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."
— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

tags: books, bookstore, towns
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"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, fiction, literature
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"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dance, dancing, music
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"In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
— Margaret Thatcher

tags: men, women
330 people liked it

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
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"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
— Groucho Marx

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"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

tags: humour, wisdom
325 people liked it

"Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear."
— Lemony Snicket (The Carnivorous Carnival)

tags: humor, miracles
329 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,628 people liked it

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

tags: writing
475 people liked it

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
— Willa Cather

tags: life, writing
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"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
— Isaac Asimov

tags: humor, writing
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""Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% of what you do with what happens to you.""
— Morgan Payne

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"I'd hate to have a kid like me."
— Bill Watterson (The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: children, humor
133 people liked it

"Calvin: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic."
— Bill Watterson

tags: procrastination
284 people liked it

"HOBBES:Do you think there's a God?
CALVIN:Well, somebody's out to get me!"
— Bill Watterson

tags: god, life
141 people liked it

"I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, negotiation, procrastination
139 people liked it

"I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, genius, misunderstood
143 people liked it

"You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go."
— Bill Watterson (The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: humor, school
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"When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, funny, humor, lemons, life
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"In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day."
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

tags: books, humor, olympians
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"Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face. "
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

tags: deadlines, humor, procrastinate
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"He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!"
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

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"Annabeth: "Hey, Seaweed Brain."

Percy: "Will you stop calling me that?"

Annabeth: "You know you love it.""
— Rick Riordan (The Demigod Files)

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"'It's him,' I said. 'Typhon.'
I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!'"
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

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"My brother broke into a toothy grin. "Yay! Your brain works!""
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

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"Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?"
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

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"It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one."
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

tags: enjoy, humor, joke, prank
36 people liked it

"I pulled out Riptide."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

tags: action, mystery
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" " No,no I never mess around.""
— Rick Riordan

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"All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book. "
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

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