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    Jennifer Crusie
    “If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
    -Gwen Goodnight”
    ― Jennifer Crusie, Faking It
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    Joe Queenan
    “Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.”
    ― Joe Queenan, One for the Books
    tags: books, poverty
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    Joe Queenan
    “Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.”
    ― Joe Queenan
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Tom Robbins
    “It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
    tags: childhood, children, innocence, youth
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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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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    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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    Berkeley Breathed
    “Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.”
    ― Berkeley Breathed
    tags: political-humor
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    Berkeley Breathed
    “I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.”
    ― Berkeley Breathed
    tags: characters, fiction, on-fiction
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32145 likes

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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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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: companionship, marriage, silence, talk
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: books, reading
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: humor, reading
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    Jim Butcher
    “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
    ― Jim Butcher
    tags: family
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    Jim Butcher
    “Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Storm Front
    tags: demon, paranoia, paranoid
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    Jim Butcher
    “Are you always a smartass?'

    Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass
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    Jim Butcher
    “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
    ― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
    tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen
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    Jim Butcher
    “I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon
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    Jim Butcher
    “Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now. ”
    ― Jim Butcher
    tags: dresden-files-books
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    Jim Butcher
    “Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Changes
    tags: changes, drinking, harry-dresden, laughter, sanity, sanya
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    Jim Butcher
    “An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: danger, errands, incendiary-poo, pyromaniac-gorillas
    297 likes

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    Jim Butcher
    “In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!”
    ― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight
    tags: harry-dresden, humor, motivation
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    Jim Butcher
    “You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight
    tags: elaine-mallory, harry-dresden, humor
    474 likes

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    Jim Butcher
    “We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
    tags: bob-the-skull, harry-dresden, humor, insanity
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