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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Iyanla Vanzant
    “Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.”
    ― Iyanla Vanzant
    tags: self-esteem
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    Iyanla Vanzant
    “Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.”
    ― Iyanla Vanzant
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    Jennifer Egan
    “She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    ― Robert Bloch
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    Saul Bellow
    “Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
    ― Saul Bellow, Herzog
    tags: life
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
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    Normandi Ellis
    “Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.”
    ― Normandi Ellis, Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
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    Normandi Ellis
    “Name yourself in your heart and know who you are.”
    ― Normandi Ellis, Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
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    Normandi Ellis
    “Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.”
    ― Normandi Ellis, Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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    Umberto Eco
    “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
    tags: books
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    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    ― Dave Eggers
    tags: books, time
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    Michael Chabon
    “There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
    ― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
    tags: life
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
    ― W.E.B. Du Bois
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    Sophie Kinsella
    “There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
    ― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
    tags: life, resilience, ruins, truth
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    Jean Genet
    “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
    ― Jean Genet
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    Quentin R. Bufogle
    “A little stupid is like a little forest fire. If you happen upon some stupid, please stomp it out before it spreads.”
    ― Quentin R. Bufogle, Horse Latitudes
    tags: donald-trump, life, life-lessons, nra, politics, stupidity-quotes, wisdom-quotes
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: friend, honesty
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    David Whyte
    “Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
    confinement of your aloneness
    to learn

    anything or anyone
    that does not bring you alive

    is too small for you.”
    ― David Whyte, The House of Belonging
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Any fool can make a rule
    And any fool will mind it.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14
    tags: authority, conformity, fool, foolishness, humor, law, rule, rules
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    Susan Sontag
    “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality
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    Hyemeyohsts Storm
    “It is a flower that can be opened in many way...Unfold the petals of [your] stories one by one and [you] will see a great deal.”
    ― Hyemeyohsts Storm
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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  • #29
    “In the way of small-town rebels everywhere, they conformed to each other.”
    ― Chris Offutt, The Killing Hills
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    Gayl Jones
    “There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for women, but only a woman knows your full meaning. I am not a feminista. I only think a woman should be true to who she believes herself to be. Or who she wants herself to be. Or who she imagines herself to be. I don't know what I mean, or whether I'm true myself to any of that. I don't think there are many of us who are true to our possibilities.
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    ― Gayl Jones, The Healing
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