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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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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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    Judy Garland
    “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
    ― Judy Garland
    tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality
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    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination
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    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
    tags: be-yourself, empowerment, girls, identity, individuality, self-determination, women
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    Jim Morrison
    “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: acceptance, be-yourself, frienship
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, self-improvement
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    Charles Lamb
    “Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
    ― Charles Lamb
    tags: new-years
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    ― Alice Hoffman
    tags: books
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  • #13
    Louis Adamic
    “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
    ― Louis Adamic
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    Michael Chabon
    “Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”
    ― Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
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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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    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
    11251 likes

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    Henry Miller
    “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
    ― Henry Miller
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    Colleen Hoover
    “Imperfections define perfection”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
    tags: music
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    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    ― Moliere
    tags: inspirational, patience
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  • #22
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
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    Jack Kerouac
    “The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
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    Olive Higgins Prouty
    “Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!”
    ― Olive Higgins Prouty , Now, Voyager
    tags: longing, loss, love, moon, stars
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    Olive Higgins Prouty
    “I will get a cat and a parrot and live alone in single blessedness.”
    ― Olive Higgins Prouty, Now, Voyager
    tags: single-life
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    Karen Blixen
    “I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    ― Karen Blixen
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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  • #30
    J.D. Salinger
    “Writing a book is a horrible exhausting struggle; one would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon.”
    ― J.D. Salinger
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