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    Lemony Snicket
    “I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
    tags: authors, reading, strangers
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
    tags: might, mightier, pen, sword
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  • #3
    Lemony Snicket
    “Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
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  • #4
    Lemony Snicket
    “No reality has the power to dispel a dream.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
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  • #5
    Lemony Snicket
    “Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
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  • #6
    Lemony Snicket
    “We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
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  • #7
    Lemony Snicket
    “Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would see another world when I died, which I was in no hurry to do.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
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  • #8
    Lemony Snicket
    “You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
    tags: all-the-wrong-questions, books, bookworm, lemony-snicket, libraries, reading, shouldn-t-you-be-in-school
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  • #9
    Lemony Snicket
    “You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
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  • #10
    Lemony Snicket
    “You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
    tags: librarians, library
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  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
    tags: community, compassion, good-vs-evil, human-condition, humanity, imagination, kindness, respect
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  • #12
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting. There may be a time when this symbol means something treacherous and terrible, rather than something noble and literate.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
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  • #13
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
    tags: mystery
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  • #14
    Matt Smith
    “I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improblable dreams.”
    ― Matt Smith
    tags: doctor-who
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
    ― kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
    tags: bad-reviews, critics, literary-criticism, reviewers, writing
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  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “Nobody can teach you how to like something. You can like it, or you can pretend to like it, in order to make someone happy.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
    tags: pretend, teach
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  • #17
    Lemony Snicket
    “There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
    tags: crying, sadness
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  • #18
    “The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”
    ― Doctor Who
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  • #19
    George Washington
    “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
    ― George Washington
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  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sleep my little baby-oh
    Sleep until you waken
    When you wake you'll see the world
    If I'm not mistaken...

    Kiss a lover
    Dance a measure,
    Find your name
    And buried treasure...

    Face your life
    Its pain,
    Its pleasure,
    Leave no path untaken.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: awakening, choice, dance, identity, individuality, life, love, name, pain, pleasure, sleep, treasure
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  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: neil-gaiman-on-writing, readers, stories, write, writing
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  • #24
    Neil Gaiman
    “It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: neil-gaiman, the-graveyard-book
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  • #25
    Neil Gaiman
    “The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.'

    'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: inspirational
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  • #27
    “Run like hell because you always need to. Laugh at everything because it's always funny. Never be cruel and never be cowardly. And if you ever are, always make amends.”
    ― The 12th Doctor
    tags: doctor-who
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  • #28
    J. Michael Straczynski
    “Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.

    This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.”
    ― J. Michael Straczynski, The Amazing Spider-Man: Civil War
    tags: captain-america, right, truth
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  • #29
    Brandon Sanderson
    “We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
    tags: creativity, love
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  • #30
    “You are writing a Gospel,
    A chapter each day,
    By deeds that you do,
    By words that you say.

    Men read what you write,
    Whether faithless or true;
    Say, what is the Gospel
    According to you?”
    ― Paul Gilbert
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