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    Michael Ende
    “If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless.

    If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.”
    ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
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    Michael Ende
    “Every real story is a never ending story.”
    ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Piers Anthony
    “One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.”
    ― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon
    tags: opinion, opinions
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
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    Joseph Heller
    “...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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    Randall Munroe
    “But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.”
    ― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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    Steven Erikson
    “When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.”
    ― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters
    tags: malazan-book-of-the-fallen
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    Joseph Heller
    “He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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    Philip Pullman
    “Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
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    Philip Pullman
    “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    George Orwell
    “Four legs good, two legs bad.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animals, four, humans, legs, two
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    E.B. White
    “Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: blind-faith, gullibility, humor, insidious, mass-media, media, media-distortion
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
    tags: atheism, humanism
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
    tags: evidence, skepticism
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: learning, life-lessons, mistakes
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
    tags: abercrombie, logen-ninefingers
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    Stephen King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower
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    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Margery Williams Bianco
    “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
    ― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
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  • #28
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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  • #30
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
    24694 likes



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