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    Anthony Doerr
    “You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Harper Lee
    “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: integrity
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    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: parenting, role-models
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    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    ― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
    tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Liane Moriarty
    “If she packaged the perfect Facebook life, maybe she would start to believe it herself.”
    ― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
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    Liane Moriarty
    “I mean a fat, ugly man can still be funny and lovable and successful,” continued Jane. “But it’s like it’s the most shameful thing for a woman to be.” “But you weren’t, you’re not—” began Madeline. “Yes, OK, but so what if I was!” interrupted Jane. “What if I was! That’s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?”
    ― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
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    Liane Moriarty
    “Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.”
    ― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
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    Philippa Gregory
    “If you are a reader, you are already halfway to being a writer,” she says. “For you have a love of words and pleasure from seeing them on a page. And if you are a writer, then you will find that you are driven to write. It is a gift that demands to be shared. You cannot be a silent singer.”
    ― Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen
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    Philippa Gregory
    “I feel as if I can think only when I see the words flowing from the nib of my quill, that my thoughts make sense only when they are black ink on cream paper. I love the sensation of a thought in my head and the vision of the word on the page.”
    ― Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
    tags: kindness
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
    tags: human-rights, people, race-relations
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
    tags: life, marriage
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Harper Lee
    “Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
    ― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
    tags: faith, prejudice, reason
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    Harper Lee
    “Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.” “That’s odd, isn’t it?”
    ― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
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    Harper Lee
    “What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn’t give. He stays rigid. Doesn’t even try to listen, just lashes out.”
    ― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
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    Harper Lee
    “I heard ‘Equal rights for all; special privileges for none,’ and to me it didn’t mean anything but what it said.”
    ― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
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    Harper Lee
    “The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here.”
    ― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
    tags: bigotry, fundamentalism, racism
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    Malcolm X
    “So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].
    tags: accomplishment, action, impetus, inspirational
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    Malcolm X
    “Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: failure, fear, middle-age, perseverance
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    Malcolm X
    “I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: equality, humanity, integration, interfaith-marriage, intermarriage, interracial-marriage, marriage
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    Malcolm X
    “I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: humanity, justice, truth
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