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    Jim Butcher
    “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
    ― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
    tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen
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    Douglas Adams
    “If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: egotism, zaphod-beeblebrox
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    William Carlos Williams
    “We sit and talk,
    quietly, with long lapses of silence
    and I am aware of the stream
    that has no language, coursing
    beneath the quiet heaven of
    your eyes
    which has no speech”
    ― William Carlos Williams, Paterson
    tags: language, poetry, silence
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    Patricia Briggs
    “It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.”
    ― Patricia Briggs
    tags: dragon-blood, humor
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    Marisha Pessl
    “Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.”
    ― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
    tags: epic, stories
    72 likes

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  • #10
    Woody Allen
    “To you, I'm an atheist.
    To God, I'm the loyal opposition.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: absurd, atheism, humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: atheism, intelligence
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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    Neil Gaiman
    “You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
    tags: life
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
    tags: mindfulness, philosophy, present-moment
    293 likes

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    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge
    2094 likes

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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    ― Anna Quindlen
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    Hannah Hart
    “Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.”
    ― hannah hart
    tags: homosexuality, inspirational, wisdom, yourself
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    Hannah Hart
    “There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.”
    ― Hannah Hart, My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut – The #1 New York Times Bestselling Comedy Cookbook Inspired by Viral YouTube Videos
    tags: acceptance, confidence, inspirational
    34 likes

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    Grace Helbig
    “Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it’s also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?”
    ― Grace Helbig
    tags: love, relationships
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    Grace Helbig
    “When life gives you lemons, you exchange them at the store for something more edible.”
    ― Grace Helbig
    tags: funny-and-random
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    Elizabeth Bear
    “The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.”
    ― Elizabeth Bear
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    Elizabeth Bear
    “No one is making me say this. No one is making me tell this story. Nobody’s ever been much good at making me say anything I hadn’t already made up my mind to say.”
    ― Elizabeth Bear
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    Scott Lynch
    “If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."

    [on Twitter, July 17, 2012]”
    ― Scott Lynch
    tags: honesty, reviews, twitter
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While
    tags: books, reading
    84 likes

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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
    tags: libraries
    890 likes

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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
    tags: falling-in-love
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
    tags: betrayal, broken-promise, trust
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
    tags: devotion
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White
    tags: freedom, repression, society, strength, women
    76 likes



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