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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Ranko Marinković
    “I tako uđe u naš život neko lice - nepoznanica. Ukrca se u našu mirnu (hm, mirnu?) plovidbu, zagonetni putnik koji nam odjednom oduzme svaki smisao za zbilju. Isiše naprosto svu volju i počinju naša slatka lutanja. Po iluzijama.”
    ― Ranko Marinković, Kiklop
    tags: love
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    William Shakespeare
    “Cowards die many times before their deaths;
    The valiant never taste of death but once.
    Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
    It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
    Seeing that death, a necessary end,
    Will come when it will come.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: dramatist-quotes
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    Alice McDermott
    “We are surrounded by story.”
    ― Alice McDermott
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    James Hilton
    “People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
    ― James Hilton, Lost Horizon
    tags: life, people, viewpoint
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    Lawrence M. Krauss
    “No matter where you go, there you are.”
    ― Lawrence M. Krauss, The Physics of Star Trek
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Stieg Larsson
    “Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: attributed-no-source, writing
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Russell Banks
    “Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
    ― Russell Banks, Continental Drift
    tags: books
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol
    tags: gogol, heroes, laughter, life, nikolai, tears
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  • #14
    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: truth
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    Patrick Süskind
    “He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
    ― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: alone, solitude
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    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
    tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing
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    Sarah Vowell
    “We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
    ― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
    tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational
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    James Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    ― James Burke
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
    Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality
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    Frank Miller
    “The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
    ― Frank Miller
    tags: batman, comic-book-heroes, frank-miller
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    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    ― John Grisham, The Rainmaker
    tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime
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    Emily F. Murphy
    “Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
    ― Emily Murphy
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    James Salter
    “Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”
    ― James Salter, Burning the Days: Recollection
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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