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#1

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

tags: dracula

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“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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#4

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
― Tony Kushner, Perestroika

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#6

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

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“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: heartache, love

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#8

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart

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#9

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships

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#10

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

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#11

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

tags: beauty, david, uglies, westerfeld

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#12

“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

tags: destruction, freedom

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#13

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#14

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

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#15

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

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#16

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

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#17

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

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#18

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: books

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#19

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
― Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

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#20

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

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#21

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#22

“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

tags: humor

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#23

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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#24

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

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#25

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

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#26

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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#27

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

tags: imagination

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#28

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

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#29

“Clichés so often befall vain people.”
― Ann Beattie, Walks With Men

tags: clichés, vain, vanity

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#30

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

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