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    Alexander McCall Smith
    “But that's exactly the problem, retorted Isabel. We're all stuck with the same tired and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility of something radically different, then we'd never make any progress - ever. We'd still be thinking that the sun revolved round the earth.”
    ― Alexander McCall Smith, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
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    Raymond Chandler
    “Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.”
    ― Raymond Chandler
    tags: art
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    Raymond Chandler
    “Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
    ― Raymond Chandler
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    Raymond Chandler
    “From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The High Window
    tags: hard-boiled
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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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    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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    Terry Pratchett
    “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: full, hat, pratchett, sky, terry
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'
    If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
    tags: humor, interrogation, police, violence
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    Terry Pratchett
    “XXI. But Arnold Bros (est. 1905) said, This is the Sign I give you:
    XXII. If You Do Not See What You Require, Please Ask.

    From The Book of Nome, Regulations v. XXI-XXII”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Bromeliad Trilogy
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  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
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    Willie Nelson
    “The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
    ― Willie Nelson
    tags: animals, birds, cheese, competition, mice, timing, worms
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fanaticism, zealot
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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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  • #19
    “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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    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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  • #21
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Julian Barnes
    “I don't believe in God, but I miss him.
    ”
    ― Julian Barnes
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    Julian Barnes
    “We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of
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    George Orwell
    “On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
    ― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
    tags: goodness, human-nature, humour, philosophy
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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
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    George Orwell
    “Sanity is not statistical.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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  • #29
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome
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