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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    Elizabeth Taylor
    “Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”
    ― Elizabeth Taylor
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    Stan Lee
    “Face front, true believers!”
    ― Stan Lee
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: troubles
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    Nora Ephron
    “What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
    ― Nora Ephron
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    William Shakespeare
    “And as imagination bodies forth
    The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
    Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
    A local habitation and a name”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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    George Carlin
    “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
    ― George Carlin
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    Yasunari Kawabata
    “As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
    ― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
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    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: inspirational
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    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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    Mary Renault
    “One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
    ― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
    tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy
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    China Miéville
    “Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”
    ― China Miéville, Embassytown
    tags: gossip, secrets, stories
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    Edith Sitwell
    “I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: catfish, eccentricity, eels, fish, individuality
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    James Hilton
    “People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
    ― James Hilton, Lost Horizon
    tags: life, people, viewpoint
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    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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    Aisha Tyler
    “Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
    ― Aisha Tyler
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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    Mark Haddon
    “I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    tags: life, prime-numbers
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    Laura Esquivel
    “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
    ― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
    tags: fire, love, lust, matches
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    Katherine Mansfield
    “The mind I love must have wild places.”
    ― Katherine Mansfield
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    Norman Rush
    “Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
    ― Norman Rush
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    Beryl Markham
    “A map says to you.
    Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
    I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
    ― Beryl Markham
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    ― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
    tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
    tags: autumn, fall, first-frost, garden-spells, lost-lake, sarah-addison-allen, waverly
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    Edward Abbey
    “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
    ― Edward Abbey
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    Robinson Jeffers
    “The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
    Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”
    ― Robinson Jeffers
    tags: nature, poetry, the-continent-s-end
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    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    ― Steve Jobs
    2917 likes



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