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#1

“I'm grieving over what a jerk you are...”
― Maria Semple

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#2

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

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#3

“There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.”
― Jennifer Donnelly

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#4

“I don't have time."
Silly. You always have time."
"Oh yeah[?}."
"Yes. Time is a person-made concept.”
― Ned Vizzini It's kind of a Funny Story

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#5

“Nowhere is normal”
― Ned Vizzini It's kind of a Funny Story

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#6

“But eating was the last thing on my mind. And I didn't see how Miss Wilcox could eat, or teach, or sleep or ever find any reason to leave this room. Not with all these books in it, just begging to be read.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

tags: books

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#7

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#8

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore

26199 likes

#9

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#10

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

16290 likes

#11

“... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#12

“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: humor, mary-s-night-light, mutated-sheep, nonmetallic-conductivity

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#13

“Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est." (Roughly, "They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.")”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#14

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51601 likes

#15

“Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swank?”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker

tags: humor, jump, pull, rich, swank

15 likes

#16

“Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: dreams

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#17

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: education

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