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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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    William Goldman
    “True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: cough-drops, love, true-love
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    William Goldman
    “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: retribution, revenge
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    William Goldman
    “We’ll never survive!”
    “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: doubt, humor, optimism, survival
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    William Goldman
    “Have fun storming the castle!”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: horror, irony
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: farenheit-451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
    tags: humor
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    Ray Bradbury
    “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: imagination, quality, skill, writers, writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: cage, insanity
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. ”
    ― Ray Bradbury
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    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: humor, risque
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    George Burns
    “If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
    ― George Burns
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    George Burns
    “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: humor, politics
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    George Burns
    “I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.”
    ― George Burns
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    George Burns
    “Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.”
    ― George Burns
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    George Burns
    “I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: ageing, birthday
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    George Burns
    “I can remember when the air was clean and the sex was dirty." -George Burns”
    ― George Burns
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    George Burns
    “When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: age, humor
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    Edith Sitwell
    “I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: life
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    Richard Wright
    “If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.”
    ― Richard Wright
    tags: death, lie, truth
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    Richard Wright
    “All literature is protest.”
    ― Richard Wright
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    Richard Wright
    “Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!”
    ― Richard Wright
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    Richard Wright
    “The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.”
    ― Richard Wright, Native Son
    tags: african-american, american, native-son, race, religion, us
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