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#1

“I didn't take well to pitying yourself. It weren't worth the effort or time and it pissed people off.”
― Beth Lewis, The Wolf Road

tags: self-pity, whining

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#2

“You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

tags: reading

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#3

“There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone ALWAYS dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

tags: observational, reading

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#4

“The maltreated child cries 'I hurt.' Unheard or unheeded, that cry becomes prophecy.”
― Andrew Vachss, Another Chance to Get It Right

tags: child-abuse, child-abuse-survivors

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#5

“Biology does not make a man a father--nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.”
― Andrew Vachss, Another Chance to Get It Right

tags: fatherhood, fathers, motherhood, mothers, parenting, parents

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#6

“Greta abides by the reasonable philosophy that there is nothing in the universe more boring than someone else's dreams.”
― Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

tags: dream-analysis, dreams

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#7

“As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

tags: humor

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#8

“We're going to play a different game now. It's called "who can yell 'help' the loudest and the most.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

tags: games, help, humor

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#9

“Bland friendliness is easier than spending even one joule of energy formulating an opinion on someone fundamentally irrelevant to you.”
― Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

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#10

“Very few people get a chance to quantify how much their father loves them. But I did. The job should have taken forty-five minutes, but Dad spent three and a half hours on it. My father loves me 366 percent more than he loves anything else. Good to know.”
― Andy Weir, Artemis

tags: daughter, family, family-relationships, father

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#11

“Between the atheism and the lesbian thing, Lily was a terrible Catholic. Even before she'd added murder to her list of sins.”
― Robin Talley, As I Descended

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#12

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#13

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people

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#14

“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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#15

“The real problem with his type of OCD--chronic fear of hurting other people--was that you thought so much about not running over children, not sideswiping pedestrians, not poisoning strangers with germs on your hands--essentially not killing a world full of strangers--that you ended up hurting the people you loved most. He saw that now.”
― Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

tags: ocd

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#16

“They say a clean cut heals soonest. There’s nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can’t see or hear or touch a man, it’s best to let him go”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#17

“You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let's give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.”
― Bob Ross

tags: friends, trees

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#18

“This is your bravery test. You worked so hard and then a crazy-haired guy tells you to throw in a big ol' tree on top of it all.
Take a two-inch brush...”
― Bob Ross

tags: bravery, courage, painting, trees

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#19

“Others among them lay out under the stars at night and recorded their dreams as if they were transmissions from beyond. As a kind of fiction, it enlivened my reading but was otherwise worthless.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

tags: dreams

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#20

“There were things Thor did when something went wrong. The first thing he did was ask himself if what had happened was Loki’s fault. Thor pondered. He did not believe that even Loki would have dared to steal his hammer. So he did the next thing he did when something went wrong, and he went to ask Loki for advice.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

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#21

“Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki’s fault. It saves a lot of time.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

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#22

“I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. ”
― Stephen King

tags: writing-terror

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#23

“Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

tags: ecosystem, habitat, mars, science, space-travel

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#24

“The paintings on the wall were largely preoccupied with the amazing heroism of large dogs faced with imperiled children. Nor water nor fire nor earthquake could do in a child so long as a big dog was available.”
― John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

tags: children, dogs

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#25

“There is no god, and that's the simple truth. If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.”
― Penn Jillette, God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

tags: atheism, religion, science

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#26

“In a lot of ways, sanity is a performance.”
― Rachel Lindsay, Rx

tags: sanity

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#27

“No, the great thing about selfie sticks is that they send annoying people out into the world with a built-in means with which to thrash them. -Bucky Katt”
― Darby Conley, Catabunga!: A Get Fuzzy Collection

tags: selfie-sticks, selfies

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#28

“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

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#29

“Sometimes it's harder to notice a place you think you know well; you eyes glide over it, seeing it but not seeing it at all. It's almost as if familiarity gives you a kind of temporary blindness. I had to force myself to look harder and try to see beyond the concept of library that was so latent in my brain.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

tags: familiarity, libraries

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#30

“For scientific discovery, give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel, give me Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when you are seeing no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton”
― Raymond Priestley

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