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    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130803 likes

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    Lorrie Moore
    “One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
    ― Lorrie Moore, Like Life: Stories
    tags: hide, protect, shelter
    633 likes

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    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    ― Moliere
    tags: inspirational, patience
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, love
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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
    21247 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor
    3630 likes

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    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    ― Benjamin Spock
    tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance
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    Beatrix Potter
    “Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
    ― Beatrix Potter
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    Beatrix Potter
    “Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”
    ― Beatrix Potter
    tags: christian-behavior, faith, inspirational
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    Beatrix Potter
    “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
    ― Beatrix Potter
    tags: writing
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    Beatrix Potter
    “I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.”
    ― Beatrix Potter
    tags: desire, drawing, rest
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  • #15
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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    Patrick O'Brian
    “Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
    ― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days
    tags: dr-maturin, patrick-o-brian
    1051 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
    9872 likes

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    Nelson DeMille
    “The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
    ― Nelson De Mille
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    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
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    William Wordsworth
    “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
    ― William Wordsworth
    tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart
    3262 likes

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    C.J. Cherryh
    “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
    ― C. J. Cherryh
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    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
    ― Margaret Wise Brown
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    Andre Dubus III
    “The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
    ― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog
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    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    ― Sara Henderson
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    Mariko Tamaki
    “Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you?”
    ― Mariko Tamaki, Emiko Superstar
    tags: humor, life, random
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    Sophie Campbell
    “I love haters because they help me improve”
    ― Sophie Campbell
    tags: insparational
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing
    2427 likes

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    Elie Wiesel
    “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
    ― Elie Wiesel, Night
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