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    Alfred Hitchcock
    “I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
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    “Every lie contains truth, and every truth contains a lie”
    ― Aki Shimizu
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    Alfred Hitchcock
    “The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
    tags: bladders, humor, movies
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    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
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    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Ideas come from everything”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
    tags: ideas, inspiration
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    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine
    tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society
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    Trudi Canavan
    “It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.”
    ― Trudi Canavan, The Magicians' Guild
    tags: spiritual
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    Pearl S. Buck
    “Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...

    - Wang Lung”
    ― Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
    tags: age, inspirational, time
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  • #11
    Jonathan Stroud
    “Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.”
    ― Jonathan Stroud, The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set
    tags: bartimaeus
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    Nancy Farmer
    “I love you," Matt said.
    I love you, too," Maria replied. "I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it."
    If I have a soul, I'll go with you," promised Matt.”
    ― Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion
    tags: hell, love, soul
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    John Steinbeck
    “Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: good-hearted
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    Victor Hugo
    “Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: lovers
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Tombs of Atuan
    tags: inspirational
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    Derek Landy
    “You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know exactly what that someone has just done.' --Skulduggery”
    ― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    George Burns
    “You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
    ― George Burns
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: kindness
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    André Breton
    “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
    ― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
    tags: love, madness
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    Vera Nazarian
    “It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."

    Let's be real. Fact is, we might be better served to accept that we are all siblings.

    Siblings fight, pull each other's hair, steal stuff, and accuse each other indiscriminately.

    But siblings also know the undeniable fact that they are the same blood, share the same origins, and are family.

    Even when they hate each other.

    And that tends to put all things in perspective.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: brother, brotherhood, brothers, family, fraternity, metaphor, siblings, sister, sisters
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: insanity, love, marriage
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge
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    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “Live not for Battles Won.
    Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
    Live in the along.”
    ― Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One
    tags: battles, living, poetry
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    Thomas à Kempis
    “In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

    (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
    ― Thomas a Kempis
    tags: books, literature, peace, reading, rest, words
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  • #28
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    ― Margaret Mead
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    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
    tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure
    4663 likes



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