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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
    32147 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    David Sedaris
    “If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
    ― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
    tags: sympathy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays
    tags: consistency
    538 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #11
    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    ― Sid Ziff
    tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Mae West
    “I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, temptation
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
    tags: discrimination, humor, self-assurance, self-worth
    990 likes

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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “You heard me. You ain't blind.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
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    Woody Allen
    “I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: humor, life, sex
    6556 likes

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    Orson Welles
    “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
    ― Orson Welles
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
    3335 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: learning
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    Joan Crawford
    “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
    ― Joan Crawford
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: importance, kiss, kissing
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: neurosis
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
    7422 likes

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    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    5872 likes



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