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    Brent Weeks
    “When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: labels, manners
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson
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    Ruta Sepetys
    “Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.”
    ― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
    tags: beauty
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: humor, wisdom
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: nico
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: men, women
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    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
    tags: inspirational
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  • #13
    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    tags: activism
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: live-death-love
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: wit
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
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  • #21
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: books
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    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    ― John Green
    tags: humor, nerdfighters
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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  • #26
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
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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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    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing
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    Tim O'Brien
    “A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, lies, on-fiction, truth, writing
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  • #30
    Juliet Marillier
    “You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.”
    ― Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest
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