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“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

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“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time

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#2

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

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#3

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.…”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.”
― John Updike, Rabbit Redux

tags: thirties, thirty, thirtysomething

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#5

“I love you,” he says, and the fact that he doesn’t makes it true.”
― John Updike, Rabbit Redux

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#6

“Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.”
― John Updike, Rabbit Redux

tags: family, life, living

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#7

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#8

“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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#9

“Be the best. Work harder, work smarter. Exceed every expectation. But also, be invisible, imperceptible. Don’t make anyone uncomfortable. Don’t inconvenience. Exist in the negative only, the space around. Do not insert yourself into the main narrative. Go unnoticed. Become the air. Open your eyes.”
― Natasha Brown, Assembly

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#10

“But it’s there. Dread. Every day is an opportunity to fuck up. Every decision, every meeting, every report. There’s no success, only the temporary aversion of failure. Dread.”
― Natasha Brown, Assembly

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#11

“My question is whether today you are of the same view about the Wall as something humane, and the killings at the border an act of peace.’ He raises his free arm, inhales and screams, ‘More! Than! Ever!’ He brings his fist down.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

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#12

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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#13

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#14

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

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“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

tags: education, soul

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#16

“María was out of the blocks the moment she heard the doorbell jangle. She came rushing from the kitchen to greet her childhood friend with cilantro hugs and chipotle kisses.”
― Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

tags: cilantro, cooking, cooking-quotes, cooks, kisses, magical-realism, mexican-cuisine, mexican-food, mexico, time-travel

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#17

“This is what families do for each other—hide a few uncomfortable truths, allow a few self-deceptions. Little kindnesses.” “And little cruelties,” he said.”
― Anne Tyler, French Braid

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#18

“Boris Johnson delivered an unexpectedly jaunty press conference in which he assured an anxious nation we would ‘turn the tide within the next twelve weeks’ and ‘send coronavirus packing in this country’, as though it were some unwanted door-to-door salesman.”
― Rachel Clarke, Breathtaking

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“We have a fantastic health service and it is well capable of handling the most tremendous pressures, as everyone knows.”
― Rachel Clarke, Breathtaking

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“How can a health service so stripped of spare capacity cope with the demands of a once-ina-lifetime global pandemic? I bite my lip and think longingly of Germany’s twenty-nine intensive care beds per 100,000 people – four times the number of ICU beds in Britain”
― Rachel Clarke, Breathtaking

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#21

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.”
― Rumi

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#22

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

tags: discovery, discovery-of-oneself, love, love-quotes, self-discovery, war

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#23

“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: war

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#24

“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in
her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And
forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it.
It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in
that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it
... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than
anything else”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

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#25

“OH YOU LIED, YOU LYING SACK OF CLOUD SCALES!”
― Kimberly Lemming, That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf

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