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    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: determination, fate
    2085 likes

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    J.R. Ward
    “Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries
    to get there.”
    ― J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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    James Russell Lowell
    “Fate loves the fearless.”
    ― James Russell Lowell
    tags: fate, life
    319 likes

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    Jeanette Winterson
    “I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
    tags: choice, destiny, fate, life
    206 likes

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  • #6
    Philip Pullman
    “You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
    420 likes

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    Trevanian
    “Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.”
    ― Trevanian, Shibumi
    tags: fate, figures-of-speech, irony
    93 likes

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  • #8
    Sophocles
    “If you try to cure evil with evil
    you will add more pain to your fate.”
    ― Sophocles, Ajax
    tags: evil, fate, pain
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    Peter Benchley
    “There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.”
    ― Peter Benchley, Jaws
    tags: fear, great-white-shark, hooper, jaws, sea, shark
    46 likes

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    Peter Benchley
    “The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”
    ― Peter Benchley, Jaws
    tags: ellen-brody, future, jaws, past, present
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    Peter Benchley
    “Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.”
    ― Peter Benchley, Jaws
    tags: great-white, jaws, shark, vengeance
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    Peter Benchley
    “The great fish moved silently through the night water.”
    ― Peter Benchley, Jaws
    tags: first-lines, opening-lines
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