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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Joseph Mitchell
    “...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
    ― Joseph Mitchell
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    Thor Heyerdahl
    “Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
    ― Thor Heyerdahl
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    Tom Perrotta
    “He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
    ― Tom Perrotta, Joe College
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    Julia Child
    “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
    ― Julia Child
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    Ogden Nash
    “Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
    And that's what parents were created for.”
    ― Ogden Nash
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    ― Annie Proulx
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    Paulo Coelho
    “No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Will Shortz
    “As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
    ― Will Shortz
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    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
    ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan
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    Janet Frame
    “There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
    ― Janet Frame
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    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    Robert Crumb
    “Keep on truckin'”
    ― R. Crumb
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    Eugene Field
    “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
    ― Eugene Field
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    Kiran Desai
    “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
    ― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
    tags: change, past, present
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    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    ― Boris Pasternak
    tags: life
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    Ann Beattie
    “Clichés so often befall vain people.”
    ― Ann Beattie, Walks With Men
    tags: clichés, vain, vanity
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    Stephen Jay Gould
    “Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
    ― Stephen Jay Gould
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    Sherwood Anderson
    “Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
    ― Sherwood Anderson
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    William H. Armstrong
    “One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
    ― William H. Armstrong
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    Anne Bradstreet
    “Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
    ― Anne Bradstreet
    tags: flattery, praise, words
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    Anna Deavere Smith
    “Each person has a literature inside them.”
    ― Anna Deavere Smith
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    William Golding
    “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    Jude Deveraux
    “Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
    ― Jude Deveraux
    tags: an-angel-for-emily, emily-todd
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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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    Kay Ryan
    “It isn't ever delicate to live.”
    ― Kay Ryan
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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    W.S. Merwin
    “Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
    ― W.S. Merwin
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