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    Rita Mae Brown
    “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: humor, insanity
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    Marion Dane Bauer
    “Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.”
    ― Marion Dane Bauer, What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction – Point of View, Dialogue, Endings, and Revision
    tags: authors, writing-books, writing-from-the-heart
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    Walter Benjamin
    “Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
    ― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Alexander Pope
    “Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
    As to be hated needs but to be seen;
    Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
    We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
    ― Alexander Pope
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    Lea Carter
    “I was to be a bride, but whose? Councilor Branwick had assured me that the Council of Citizens would let me know the moment they decided.”
    ― Lea Carter, Silver Majesty
    tags: arranged-marriage, bride, fairy, princess
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
    tags: inspirational
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Donita K. Paul
    “I shall not tell your husband and you shall not tell my wife."
    Tell them what?"
    That you and I were outwitted by a ropma."
    That would be shamful."
    Girl, we could never live it down.”
    ― Donita K. Paul, DragonFire
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    Donita K. Paul
    “Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.”
    ― Donita K. Paul, DragonQuest
    tags: book, books, donita, donita-k-paul, dragon, dragonquest, liabrary, paul, quest
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    Donita K. Paul
    “Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.”
    ― Donita K. Paul, DragonFire
    tags: bardon, brain, humor, tongue, tongues
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    Edwin Markham
    “He drew a circle that shut me out-
    Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
    But love and I had the wit to win:
    We drew a circle and took him In!”
    ― Edwin Markham
    tags: friend, heretic, love, poem, rebel, wit
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    Spencer W. Kimball
    “Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.”
    ― Spencer W. Kimball
    tags: lds, religious, uplifting
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    Zaman Ali
    “Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.”
    ― Zaman Ali, MORALITY An Individual Dilemma
    tags: create, ethics-and-moral-philosophy, good, individuality, morality, philosophy, protect
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    “She rebelled against the emptiness and meaninglessness of her life. She hoped that when Bruce was her age he too would rebel if he found his life intolerable. She hoped he would want to do something about it; anything was better than to submit to your fate supinely.”
    ― Emilie Loring
    tags: meaninglessness
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