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    Irving Stone
    “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
    ― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
    tags: books, friendship
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    Jack London
    “I would rather be ashes than dust!
    I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
    I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
    The function of man is to live, not to exist.
    I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
    I shall use my time.”
    ― Jack London
    tags: life, meteor
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    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men. ”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
    tags: historical-romance
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    Jim Butcher
    “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
    ― Jim Butcher
    tags: family
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    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    “Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”
    ― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    tags: anzac, martyr, peace, turkey, war
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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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
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, favorite-books
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    Stephen King
    “A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: comedy, creativity, tragedy
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
    ― oscar wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Ilona Andrews
    “Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'"
    I stared at him, shocked.
    The smile widened. "You will say 'please' before and 'thank you' after."
    Nervous laughter bubbled up. "You've gone insane. All that peroxide in your hair finally did your brain in, Goldilocks.”
    ― Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns
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    Leigh Brackett
    “Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.”
    ― Leigh Brackett
    tags: science
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    Ilona Andrews
    “The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into the vamp's mouth, and pulled them up by their edges.
    "What are you doing?" Ghastek asked.
    "My hole puncher broke."
    "You have no respect for the undead.”
    ― Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns
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    H.G. Wells
    “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
    tags: jealousy, morality
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    Isaac Marion
    “You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
    tags: live-in-the-here-and-now, memory, recollection
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    Kerry Greenwood
    “If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”
    ― Kerry Greenwood
    tags: muse, writing
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    Kerry Greenwood
    “I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.”
    ― Kerry Greenwood, Queen of the Flowers
    tags: humor
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    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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    Alan Greenspan
    “ I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”
    ― Alan Greenspan
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
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    Sun Tzu
    “There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: benefit, war
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    “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
    ― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
    tags: desk, viewpoint
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: action, information, sleep
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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