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#1

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#2

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

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#3

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

12946 likes

#4

“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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#5

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74460 likes

#6

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

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#7

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

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#8

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: inspirational

2470 likes

#9

“The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

18 likes

#10

“To the destruction of what is.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

tags: toast

12 likes

#11

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

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#12

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

tags: truth

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#13

“One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

tags: politics

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#14

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

8609 likes

#15

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

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#16

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
― Adam Smith

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#17

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

tags: happiness, life

1939 likes

#18

“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
― William Congreve

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#19

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

tags: drinking, drunken-behaviour, humor

1321 likes

#20

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

tags: horticulture, puns

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#21

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

3736 likes

#22

“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: future, hope, insatiability

265 likes

#23

“We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

569 likes

#24

“I will drink life to the lees.”
― Alfred Tennyson

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#25

“Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.”
― John le Carré, The Looking Glass War

tags: betrayal, espionage, love

163 likes

#26

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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#27

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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#28

“You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

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#29

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#31

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

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