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    Carrie Vaughn
    “What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?”
    ― Carrie Vaughn
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    Carrie Vaughn
    “Hey, Cormac. You ever have to deal with a PMSing werewolf?”
    ― Carrie Vaughn, Kitty and the Midnight Hour
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    Tamora Pierce
    “You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
    "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess
    tags: alanna, amusing, philosophy, tamora-pierce
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Tad Williams
    “As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.”
    ― Tad Williams
    tags: humor
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    S.M. Stirling
    “Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.”
    ― S.M. Stirling
    tags: inspirational, religious
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    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
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    Joan Bauer
    “When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.”
    ― Joan Bauer
    tags: librarians, libraries, paraphrased
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Janet Evanovich
    “Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head."
    Eddie DeChooch”
    ― Janet Evanovich, Seven Up
    tags: humor
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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    Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures
    “Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
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    ― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
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    Jane Austen
    “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: mr-bennet
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    Wendell Berry
    “You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this:
    “Rejoice evermore.
    Pray without ceasing.
    In everything give thanks.”
    I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.”
    ― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
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    C.S. Lewis
    “While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
    tags: friendship
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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    Jennifer Michael Hecht
    “How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.”
    ― Jennifer Hecht, The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn't Working Today – A Liberating Vision for Caring for Hearts, Minds, and Bodies
    tags: happiness, history
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    “In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read.”
    ― Jeanette Winter, The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
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    “Right is right, even if you're alone.”
    ― Jeanette Winter, Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
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    Frederik Pohl
    “A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
    ― Frederik Pohl
    tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, writing
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    Elizabeth Camden
    “You are a child of God, and that means that there is great, shining beauty within you.”
    ― Elizabeth Camden, The Lady of Bolton Hill
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    United Nations
    “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
    ― United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    tags: borders, censorship, civil-rights, communication, encroachment, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, frontiers, government, human-rights, information, international-community, liberty, surveillance
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  • #25
    “Never underestimate the power of a woman!”
    ― Archie Andrews
    tags: power, women
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    Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did,
    “Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did, .. backwards and in high heels."

    From: Frank and Ernest by Bob Thaves, art by Bob Thaves.”
    ― Bob Thaves
    tags: bob-thaves, frank-and-ernest, fred-astaire, ginger-rogers, high-heels, women
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    Garrison Keillor
    “Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.”
    ― Garrison Keillor, Dusty And Lefty: The Lives of the Cowboys
    tags: librarians
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    Graham Greene
    “You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other...”
    ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
    tags: love
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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