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    Ray Bradbury
    “Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
    tags: science-miracles
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: humor, macabre
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Even God used silence as a strategy.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
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    Susan Juby
    “If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.”
    ― Susan Juby, Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last
    tags: humor
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing
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    Tite Kubo
    “People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them.”
    ― Tite Kubo
    tags: hope, humor
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    Tanya Huff
    “Isn't that just like a man. 450-fucking-years-old and he's still thinking with his balls!”
    ― Tanya Huff, Blood Trail
    tags: humor
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    Orson Scott Card
    “You're a monster.
    Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
    No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: humor
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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
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  • #11
    John Green
    “Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: alaska-young
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    Gregory Maguire
    “The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror
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    Gregory Maguire
    “As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”
    ― Gregory Maguire
    tags: labels, lunacy
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    Gary L. Blackwood
    “You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.”
    ― Gary Blackwood
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    Robert Browning
    “Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
    Or what's a heaven for?”
    ― Robert Browning, Men and Women and Other Poems
    tags: aspiration, heaven, inspirational
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    Gary L. Blackwood
    “This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected to tell the truth, to express your thoughts and your feelings, and then other times what was wanted was a lie, a bit of disguise.”
    ― Gary Blackwood, The Shakespeare Stealer
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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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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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: 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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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Stephen King
    “When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
    ― Stephen King, Storm of the Century
    tags: god, humor, religion
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    Gayle Friesen
    “First rule of a good shrink is probably to pay attention to the whining.”
    ― Gayle Friesen, The Isabel Factor
    tags: humor
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