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    Philip Pullman
    “Imagination is a form of seeing”
    ― Phillip Pullman
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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
    21173 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    John Irving
    “I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.”
    ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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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
    101574 likes

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  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
    49874 likes

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  • #10
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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  • #12
    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”
    ― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret
    tags: anime, emotions, funny, humor, manga, provoke, troublesome
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    Bill Watterson
    “You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
    What mood is that?
    Last-minute panic.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: procrastination
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  • #14
    Bill Watterson
    “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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    Bill Watterson
    “There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: idleness, time, wasting-time
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  • #16
    Bill Watterson
    “I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    Bill Watterson
    “Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: humor
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    Bill Watterson
    “In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: humor, jerks, science
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  • #19
    Bill Watterson
    “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
    ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
    tags: army, fighting, peace, soldiers, war
    1300 likes

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  • #20
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck
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  • #21
    Bill Watterson
    “I'm a misunderstood genius."
    "What's misunderstood?"
    "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, genius, misunderstood
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  • #22
    Bill Watterson
    “We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: enjoy-life, humor, live-in-the-moment
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  • #23
    Bill Watterson
    “CALVIN:
    Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?

    When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny.

    Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?

    HOBBES:
    I suppose if we couldn't laugh at the things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: life-humor
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  • #24
    Bill Watterson
    “Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: inspirational, recreation
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  • #25
    Bill Watterson
    “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. ”
    ― Bill Watterson
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  • #26
    Bill Watterson
    “I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin, hiccup, hobbes, humor
    614 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report?
    Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes."
    Calvin: Academia, here I come!”
    ― Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
    tags: humor-education
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  • #28
    Bill Watterson
    “Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
    Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
    Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.
    Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin, hobbes, humor, intelligence
    553 likes

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  • #29
    Philip Pullman
    “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, inspirational
    2483 likes

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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Philip Pullman
    “I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
    tags: mary-malone, morality
    1076 likes



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