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    Diana Gabaldon
    “Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men. ”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
    tags: historical-romance
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded.

    No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought. ”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
    tags: historical-romance
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.'

    Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn}”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon
    tags: fiery-cross, jamie-fraser, outlander
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mae West
    “Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
    ― Mae West, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
    tags: bachelorhood, double-entendre, empowerment, freedom, independence, institutions, marriage, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, singles
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    Mae West
    “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: decadence, fairy-tales, innuendo, purity, risque, snow-white, virginity
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    Mae West
    “I'm single because I was born that way.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: bachelorhood, choice, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, self-determination, singleness, singles
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    Mae West
    “Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”
    ― Mae West
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
    ― robert heinlein
    tags: writing
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: drinking, inspirational
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just
    as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how
    well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to
    me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.”
    ― Robert Heinlein
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    Mercedes Lackey
    “Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.”
    ― Mercedes Lackey, Alta
    tags: power
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    Mercedes Lackey
    “If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
    (a Shin'a'in saying)”
    ― Mercedes Lackey, Owlknight
    tags: stupid, stupidity, trying
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    Elizabeth I
    “I will have but one mistress and no master”
    ― queen Elizabeth I
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
    tags: stupid
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    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: freedom, morality, politics, wisdom
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    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
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    William Goldman
    “When I was your age, television was called books.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: book, fantasy, humour
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “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.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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