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    George R.R. Martin
    “Beneath it his skin was milky white, serene and unlined, ready to begin anew, ready for the world to write upon it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream
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    George R.R. Martin
    “I love beauty, but sometimes a thing lovely to behold conceals vileness and evil within.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, fear
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: hurt, pain, perfect, truthful
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Winter is coming.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: forcasting, mottos, winter
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  • #10
    “I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.”
    ― Lauren Graham, Someday, Someday, Maybe
    tags: acting, inspiration, lauren-graham
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  • #11
    “But life doesn’t often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn’t be called life, it would be called vending machine.”
    ― Lauren Graham, Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
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  • #12
    “Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.”
    ― Lauren Graham, Someday, Someday, Maybe
    tags: humor
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    “Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.”
    ― Lauren Graham, Someday, Someday, Maybe
    tags: inspiration, lauren-graham, smile
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
    tags: calcifer
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?"

    "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
    tags: bravery, cowardice, humor
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: happiness
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: despair, hope
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: inspirational, mistakes
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: humor, laughter, life
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: home, inspirational, pearls, pleasures, simple
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: imagination
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: ambition
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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  • #28
    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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  • #29
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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