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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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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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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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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic
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  • #7
    “Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
    ― Gene Fowler
    tags: humor-writing-craft
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    Douglas Adams
    “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: life
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    Douglas Adams
    “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: british, humor, science-fiction, social-commentary, thumb, towel
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: belief
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    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
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    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    ― Robert Bloch
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Beverly Cleary
    “She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”
    ― Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest
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    Greg Bear
    “Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.”
    ― Greg Bear
    tags: poetry, poets
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    Nelson DeMille
    “The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
    ― Nelson De Mille
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    Jennifer Egan
    “I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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    Ntozake Shange
    “Where there is a woman there is magic.”
    ― Ntozake Shange
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray
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    Shel Silverstein
    “She had blue skin,
    And so did he.
    He kept it hid
    And so did she.
    They searched for blue
    Their whole life through,
    Then passed right by-
    And never knew.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It
    tags: fear, masks
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    Marianne Williamson
    “Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
    ― Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
    tags: calling, healing
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    Debbie Macomber
    “Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”
    ― Debbie Macomber
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    Morgan Llywelyn
    “I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.”
    ― Morgan Llywelyn
    tags: irish
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    Grace Paley
    “Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
    ― Grace Paley
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    Alan Paton
    “I have always found that actively loving
    saves one from a morbid preoccupation
    with the shortcomings of society.”
    ― Alan Paton
    tags: complaining, love
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    Paul Auster
    “When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
    ― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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    Emily Brontë
    “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
    ― Emily Bronte
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    Anne Bradstreet
    “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
    ― Anne Bradstreet
    tags: authority, brute-force, force, oppression, wisdom
    1727 likes



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