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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”
    ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    Clark Ashton Smith
    “Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.”
    ― Clark Ashton Smith, The Last Oblivion: Best Fantastic Poems of Clark Ashton Smith
    tags: imagination
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    John Buchan
    “He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.”
    ― John Buchan
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    B. Traven
    “Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.”
    ― B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    tags: advice, work
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    Peter Ackroyd
    “And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside
    a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted
    to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in
    for ever.”
    ― Peter Ackroyd, First Light
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    Mary McCarthy
    “We are the hero of our own story.”
    ― Mary McCarthy
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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    Lee Strobel
    “To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.”
    ― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
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    Alexander McCall Smith
    “But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?”
    ― Alexander McCall Smith, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
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    Alexander McCall Smith
    “Do not act meanly, do not be unkind, because the time for setting things right may pass before your heart changes course.
    Isabel Dalhousie”
    ― Alexander McCall Smith, The Careful Use of Compliments
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    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.”
    ― Ashleigh Brilliant
    tags: sarcastic-quotes
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    L. Frank Baum
    “There is no place like home.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    ― Francois Mauriac
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    Roald Dahl
    “Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The BFG
    tags: crazy, funny, words
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    China Miéville
    “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
    ― China Miéville, King Rat
    tags: challenge, trap
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    China Miéville
    “Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.”
    ― China Miéville
    tags: classics, genres, pulp
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  • #21
    Michael Chabon
    “There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
    ― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
    tags: life
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Gerald Kersh
    “There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.”
    ― Gerald Kersh
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    Algernon Blackwood
    “No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
    inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
    walls of memory.”
    ― Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
    2561 likes



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