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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Vignesh SV
    “Nevertheless You are Yourself, you cannot win the World”
    ― Vignesh S.V.
    tags: be-yourself, live-your-life
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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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    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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    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    ― Confucius
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    Dan Brown
    “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
    ― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
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    Dan Brown
    “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: books, dan-brown, religion, science
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    Dan Brown
    “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
    tags: desire, fear, human-nature
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    John Cheever
    “I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
    ― John Cheever
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    Ian Fleming
    “Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
    ― Ian Fleming
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    André Brink
    “In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
    ― Andre Brink, Before I Forget
    tags: love
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    Maurice Sendak
    “Let the wild rumpus start!”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
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    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    ― Amy Bloom
    tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance
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    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: hope, love
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    Hilaire Belloc
    “When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
    ― Hilaire Belloc
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    Natalie Babbitt
    “Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity
    2331 likes

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry
    2114 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Eavan Boland
    “As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
    ― Eavan Boland
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    Wallace Stevens
    “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
    ― Wallace Stevens
    tags: poetry, truth
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    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: anne-rice, pandora
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    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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    Anne Rice
    “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: good-evil
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    Nalo Hopkinson
    “Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
    ― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine
    tags: perfection
    999 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
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  • #30
    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    ― Philip José Farmer
    tags: imagination, writing
    2554 likes



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