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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Tom Robbins
    “...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....”
    ― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    tags: humor, magic
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    Tom Robbins
    “Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
    tags: life
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    John Steinbeck
    “It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
    tags: life
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    John Steinbeck
    “Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: value
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Lord Byron
    “The heart will break, but broken live on. ”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
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    Lord Byron
    “The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
    I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
    I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.”
    ― Lord Byron
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    Sanai
    “This too shall pass.”
    ― Hakim Sanai
    tags: endurance, proverbs
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  • #11
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ― ernest hemingway
    tags: courage
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  • #12
    Raymond Chandler
    “To say goodbye is to die a little.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
    tags: change, life, parting, romantics
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    James Ellroy
    “Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.”
    ― James Ellroy
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    George Carlin
    “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor
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    Richard M. Nixon
    “The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.”
    ― Richard M. Nixon
    tags: action, danger, intelligence, strategy
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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: gratitude, happiness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: attraction, rumi, sufi
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.”
    ― Harriet Beecher Stowe
    tags: common-sense, senisibility
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    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.”
    ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.”
    ― Harriet Beecher Stowe
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    Jacob M. Appel
    “The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.”
    ― Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home
    tags: dangerous, dangerous-ideas, embedded, hegemony, ideas, inevitability, jacob-appel, jacob-m-appel, notion, status-quo, sublter-forms-of-communication, subtlety, subversion, subversive, undermining
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    William Faulkner
    “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
    ― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
    tags: past, time
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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  • #27
    Bruce Springsteen
    “God have mercy on the man
    who doubts what he's sure of.”
    ― Bruce Springsteen
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    Franz Kafka
    “It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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