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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Julia Child
    “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
    ― Julia Child
    tags: cooking, food
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    Charlie Chaplin
    “A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”
    ― Charlie Chaplin
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Peter De Vries
    “Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”
    ― Peter De Vries
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    Phyllis Diller
    “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
    ― Phyllis Diller
    tags: anger, funny, sleep
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Li Cunxin
    “In order to fly, you have to be free.”
    ― Li Cunxin
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    Sloane Tanen
    “Monkeys are dangerous animals. Don't be fooled by the cute exterior," Eve said like she was imparting some sage wisdom.
    "Look," I explained, "I'm sure those monkeys were just mad about something like being trapped in a cage or being forced to wear velvet vests and dance to accordion music.”
    ― Sloane Tanen, Are You Going to Kiss Me Now?
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    Sloane Tanen
    “He was on a wildly successful TV show on Disney for two years (playing a singing possum), before hitting the big screen, playing everything from Captain Marvel, to a schizophrenic, to Alexander the Great, to a college kid with a crystal meth addiction. I don't know if he's a great actor, but he's great looking, so who cares.”
    ― Sloane Tanen, Are You Going to Kiss Me Now?
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    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: endurance, ideas, inspirational
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    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: realist
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    Carson McCullers
    “People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    tags: being-different, different, eyes, face, human, influence, inspiring, standing-out
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    Harvey Fierstein
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
    ― Harvey Fierstein
    tags: be-yourself, identity, individuality, inspirational, life, self-determination, self-esteem, self-expression
    2942 likes

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    Mary Hughes
    “There were pecans, there were cashews and then there was just plain nuts.”
    ― Mary Hughes, Bite My Fire
    tags: craziness, crazy, humor, humorous-quote, nuts
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    Elle Newmark
    “Get off me you dirty turnip!" "Dirty turnip? well, pardon me Signor Cabbage-Head!”
    ― Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief
    tags: elle-newmark, funny, luciano, marco
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    Elizabeth Eulberg
    “And Nate? You kiss like a slobbering dog, you have bad breath, and you wouldn't know how to punch the right buttons on a girl if we came with manuals. Happy Thanksgiving, Jackass.”
    ― Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club
    tags: boys, humor, sassy
    177 likes

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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
    23582 likes

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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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  • #25
    “And, in the end
    The love you take
    is equal to the love you make.”
    ― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
    5070 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
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    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
    tags: be-yourself, empowerment, girls, identity, individuality, self-determination, women
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    John Banville
    “All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.”
    ― John Banville
    tags: introversion, social-anxiety
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    William Faulkner
    “Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: ashamed, honesty, yourself
    318 likes



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