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    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Puns are the highest form of literature.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
    tags: funny, humor, literature, puns
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69836 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
    9512 likes

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    Heidi Schulz
    “I’d venture to guess that a list of things you know nothing about could fill volumes.”
    ― Heidi Schulz, Hook's Revenge
    tags: knowledge, sarcastic-humor, sarcastic-quotes
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    George MacDonald
    “I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.”
    ― George MacDonald
    127 likes

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    Natalie Lloyd
    “You are never too old to be daring. Whether fifteen or ninety-five...believe your words have power. And use them.”
    ― Natalie Lloyd, The Key to Extraordinary
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    Riina Rinkineva aka. Sebastyne Young
    “The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.”
    ― Sebastyne Young
    tags: creativity, originality, writing
    12 likes

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    Holly Goldberg Sloan
    “I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic.”
    ― Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s
    48 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: art-on-writing
    559 likes

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    Brian Jacques
    “Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.”
    ― Brian Jacques
    tags: books, god, imagination
    89 likes

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    Louisa May Alcott
    “A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins
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    Jim Henson
    “There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”
    ― Jim Henson, Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets
    tags: friends, friendship
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    Ovid
    “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
    ― Ovid
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  • #15
    It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: magic, technology
    1250 likes

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    Natalie Lloyd
    “Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them.”
    ― Natalie Lloyd, The Key to Extraordinary
    tags: books, reading
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce
    tags: delusion, humor, lunatics, philosopher
    313 likes

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    Harlan Ellison
    “The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”
    ― Harlan Ellison, Stalking the Nightmare
    tags: writing
    729 likes

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    C.J. Milbrandt
    “They were daughters of the sky. Luck belonged to them— never bad, often good, sometimes hard.”
    ― C.J. Milbrandt, Aboard the Train
    tags: adventure, children-s-books, daughters, fantasy, luck
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “Step follows step,
    Hope follows Courage,
    Set your face towards danger,
    Set your heart on victory.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre
    tags: courage-builder, inspirational, victory
    553 likes

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    Gustave Flaubert
    “I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: creativity, humour, pessimistic, writing
    415 likes

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    Holly Goldberg Sloan
    “It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.”
    ― Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “Food for thought requires a mind with teeth.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre
    32 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées and Other Writings
    159 likes

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    Louisa May Alcott
    “a love for good books was one of the best safeguards a man could have,”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Learn to drive?"
    "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Archer's Goon
    tags: driving, humour, life, passenger
    99 likes

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
    2334 likes

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    Sarah Holman
    “Sometimes you are in the middle of your destiny before you even know it has begun.”
    ― Sarah Holman
    tags: destiny, faith, inspirational
    23 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
    36871 likes

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    Sarah Weeks
    “For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.”
    ― Sarah Weeks, Honey
    tags: birthday, come-true, wish, wishes, wishing
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